Thursday, 20 February 2020
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 22:42

Animal rights activists accuse Mayor Silegov of planning a purge of stray dogs

Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov was accused by the Anima Mundi animal rights group that he plans to kill up to 70 percent of the stray dogs and other animals in the capital. The meeting held on Wednesday evening to present Silegov’s plans for the re-organized Lajka animal shelter – also ran by...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 22:35

Zaev’s adviser reveals that he tipped Boki 13 off that he is being investigated

Zaev owed his position as Prime Minister to former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who is now charged with high level corruption in the Racket scandal, and also had a relationship with the other two defendants, Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 and Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kiceec. During the scandal,...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 21:53

SDSM calls on state prosecutors to investigate the case of Hungarian media funding

The SDSM party today called on state prosecutors to investigate the allegations that suspicious funding from Hungary ended in several media outlets in the country. The party claims that the money were ostensibly given to spread fake news and misinformation. According to the ruling party, these Hungarian...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 20:18

Culev calls on Spasovski to convene the Government in order to resolve the passport crisis

Interim Interior Minister Nake Culev called his predecessor, now interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski, to schedule a meeting of the Government where the unprecedented issue of passports will be discussed. Macedonia is currently left almost without blank passports and other personal documents, which...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 20:13

EU Ambassador Zbogar warns that Macedonia will need to fix its economy, institutions, before it can join the EU

European Union Ambassador to Macedonia Samuel Zbogar warned that the country has a lot of work to do still before it can join the EU. Zbogar pointed to issues with the economy, the environment, the functioning of institutions, and said all these need to be fixed before Macedonia can join the EU. This...
Economy 20.02.20 | 19:55

Days after Mickoski presented his infrastructure plan, Zaev comes up with the same idea

No sooner did VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski reveal his grand infrastructure plan, whose centerpiece is a highway linking Skopje to Bitola, did Zoran Zaev also come up with the same proposal. Mickoski presents an ambitious infrastructure plan worth two billion EUR Zaev said that he is “proposing...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 19:36

Government postpones plan to send public sector employees to private companies for after the elections

Public Administration Minister Damjan Mancevski announced that the Government is going to postpone its plan to shift public sector workers to private companies for after the elections. The plan was expected to hurt the ruling SDSM party. This process will begin after the elections are over, due to the...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 17:24

Racket trial: Janeva will ask most of the former SPO staff to testify on her behalf

During the Racket trial hearing, the defense began calling out witnesses and presented its plan for the coming days. The first witness was Vasil Dimiskov, brother of judge Vesna Dimiskova, and in the coming days the court will hear from businessmen Vladimir Todorovic and Dejan Pandeleski. Disgraced former...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 17:11

Spasovski approves the opening of five new marijuana plantations

Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski signed five new approvals for opening marijuana plantations. Even though he runs a caretaker Government whose only task is to organize elections, the expansion of the marijuana trade in Macedonia remains a priority for the Government whose former Prime Minister...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 17:00

SDSM wants to sell the water rights along the Crna river while they still can, VMRO warns

Months before the elections the SDSM led Government is rushing through a plan  to give away water rights along the Crna river to a private company. Stevce Antovski from VMRO-DPMNE said that the contract that is being pushed so close to the elections would make millions for the private company that will...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 16:46

Judge can’t say whether Vice Zaev is the man on the Racket surveillance video

Judge Vaska Nikolovska Masevska, who is leading the major Racket trial, called the press for a briefing following today’s hearing, to insist that she herself didn’t recognize Vice Zaev, Zoran Zaev’s brother, at one of the surveillance videos. The video caused a major new turn in the...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 15:42

Krusopek-based “Baneks” company won public contracts during SDSM/DUI rule

The “Baneks” company, owned by the arrested Sedula Ebopi, was importing bananas from Mexico, while in fact was supplying drugs from the drug cartels there, Lider.mk reported. It is symptomatic that this company that allegedly engaged in cocaine trafficking disguised as banana trading during...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 15:02

Culev: Passports expected to arrive next month will not feature country’s new name

The new passports, expected to arrive next month, will not feature the country’s new name, Interior Minister Nake Culev said at Thursday’s press conference. As he said, the reason for this was the lack of technical specifications on the layout of the new passport, which, according to Culev,...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 14:43

Who created the passport problem?!

Doctors will decide who will get a passport. Bravo, is it a real reform. It’s easier to get a Bulgarian than a Macedonian passport, these are just some of many reactions to the problem facing the country – a country without passports, IDs, driver’s licenses. Social networks are full...
World 20.02.20 | 14:00

Flu wave hits Germany: 79,000 cases and 130 deaths

The current winter flu wave hitting Germany has resulted in a total of 79,263 cases confirmed in laboratory testing since the autumn, around a half of them in the past two weeks, Germany‘s federal disease control agency reported on Thursday. According to the report from the Robert Koch Institute...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 13:51

Ademi: DUI expects fair, democratic and peaceful campaign

DUI expects the campaign for early parliamentary elections to be fair, democratic and peaceful, said Arbr Ademi, a member of the party’s top leadership. We look forward to a fair, democratic and peaceful election campaign and are maximally focused on the next DUI victory. Whenever DUI was in power,...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 13:44

Zaev is the head of the criminal octopus, he should say what he and Janeva talked about at the meeting in the Prime Minister’s Villa

For justified or unjustified reasons we were not allowed to film a little higher, but behind me is the Prime Minister’s Villa where Zoran Zaev secretly met with Katica Janeva after being accused in the “Racket” case. Zaev does not deny that there were meetings right here, and what remains...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 12:49

Krusopek cocaine found in bananas imported by “Baneks” company

The police found a kilogram of cocaine in a shipment of bananas, coming from Mexico through Albania to Macedonia, which was part of a larger shipment of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine. The importer of the bananas was the Krusopek-based “Baneks” company importing fruits and vegetables. The Montenegrin...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 12:19

Boki: If I acted like Kiceec or if I said Katica was guilty I would have been released

Defendant Bojan Jovanovski at the end of his address to the trial chamber said it would have been different if he had said something about the others in the case. If I acted like Zoran Milevski or if I said that Katica was guilty or that Remenski was taking money maybe they would have released me, Jovanovski...
Macedonia 20.02.20 | 11:55

Ruskoska to Boki: This is a courtroom, not a theater stage!

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska and Bojan Jovanovski had a heated exchange over whether he should be released from detention. Boki begged the court for a milder measure, saying that he would not run away and that he must think of his health. This is a courtroom, not a theater stage, the prosecutor told him....
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