Friday, 5 March 2021
News 05.03.21 | 23:05

“Filipce made Macedonia dependent on the Russian vaccine which he rejected in December”

Macedonia has no vaccines other than the 8,000 Pfizer doses donated by Serbia, and Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce doesn’t sound too sure when he announced a delivery of 3,000 Russian vaccines on Sunday, warned the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. Filipce already misled the public numerous times,...
News 05.03.21 | 22:47

Covid hospitalizations could reach 15,000-20,000, Orban says

Prime Minister Viktor Orbаn said the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients in Hungary could reach 15,000-20,000 in a weekly interview on public radio on Friday, according to a report by state news wire MTI. After an early morning meeting of the Operative Corps, the body coordinating Hungary’s...
News 05.03.21 | 21:45

Citizens protest plans for major new residential developments in the western districts of Skopje

Citizens from Skopje’s Gjorce Petrov district met with Transportation Minister Blagoj Bocvarski to protest the huge planned development that could add up to 800 apartments and 3,000 citizens to the area. Representatives of citizens who protest the plan say that Mayor Aleksandar Naumoski refuses...
News 05.03.21 | 21:18

New corona wave: Government will decide whether to introduce new restrictive measures next week

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that due to the rising number of coronavirus infections, the Government will discuss introducing additional restrictive measures next week. We were in intense communication with the members of the Infectious Diseases Committee these past days and we are following...
News 05.03.21 | 21:14

Pendarovski and Zaev don’t see need to add the Bulgarian nation to the preamble of the Macedonian Constitution

President Stevo Pendarovski does not see need to amend the Macedonian Constitution so that the Bulgarian community is included in the preamble. The preamble currently lists the Albanian, Turk, Vlach, Serbian, Roma and Bosniak peoples, and “others”. Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani raised the...
News 05.03.21 | 18:10

Police still determining the cause of the Albanian mafia style double murder in Skopje

Interior MInister Oliver Spasovski said that hte police is still trying to determine the cause of the mafia style double killing in Skopje overnight. Two Albanians in their 20ies, Burim Vardari and Afrim Berisha, were gunned down with automatic rifle fire while they were sitting in their car in Topaansko...
News 05.03.21 | 17:53

City of Gevgelija asks for permission to impose an overnight curfew

Local authorities in Gevgelija asked the Government to allow them to declare an overnight curfew after the latest surge of the coronavirus. Yesterday similar demands came from Negotino and Prilep. Authorities in Gevgelija want to impose a curfew from 21h until 5h – mainly to more efficiently prevent...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 16:43

Bulgaria extradited the murderer of Martin Neskovski back to Macedonia

Bulgaria today extradited Igor Spasov, the former police officer sentenced to 14 years in prison for the brutal murder of the young Martin Neskovski in 2011. Spasov has been escorted back to the Idrizovo prison to serve out the remaining half of his sentence. The murder, perpetrated during the large...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 16:34

Corona report: Eleven patients died, including a 39 year old

Eleven patients, including one aged just 39, died of the coronavirus during the past day. Five of the deceased were from Skopje, and two each from Kavadarci and Negotino – indicating that the central Tikves region continues to be hit especially hard by the epidemic. Other than the 39-year old patient,...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 16:26

Academic Kocarev vindicated – Leaked document proves plans to abolish the Macedonian language and literature departments

Several news outlets published today a program prepared by the Dean of the Philological Faculty in Skopje Aneta Ducevska under which the current 11 departments at the faculty will be reduced to just five. On the chopping block would be the Macedonian language and Macedonian literature departments which...
World 05.03.21 | 16:21

Hungary to tighten pandemic restrictions as new infections hit record

Authorities in Hungary are tightening pandemic restrictions in an effort to mitigate a rapid rise in deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19. Businesses will be required to close their doors for two weeks beginning Monday, with only grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations permitted to remain...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 15:46

What Gligorov said about Frckoski in his book: He offered me a million dollars of Greek money to give up the name

The first president of Macedonia Kiro Gligorov in his 2001 book “Macedonia is all we have” spoke about how Ljubomir Frckoski through Greek mediators tried to bribe him with a million dollars if he gave up the country’s constitutional name. Glirorov wrote that he listened to them but...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 15:29

Zaev: First batch of 3,000 Russian vaccines expected to arrive on Sunday

I have information that the first batch of 3,000 Russian vaccines are expected to arrive, said today the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, answering a reporter’s question at an event in the Skopje municipality of Karpos. On Sunday, we expect the first 3,000 vaccines to arrive via DHL. The Minister is...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 14:57

Simovski: Commission for Infectious Diseases decides whether to cancel the census or not

The head of the State Statistical Office, Apostol Simovski, said today that the cancellation of the census process in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic depends on the Commission for Infectious Diseases. According to him, such a decision depends on the Commission, and if this health institution...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 14:36

VMRO-DPMNE’s municipal committees didn’t organize the protests, people gathered on their own initiative

Almost all witnesses at Thursday’s trial in the events of “April 27” were unanimous in stating that VMRO-DPMNE was not the organizer of the protests. Dragan Petkovski and Saso Stosevski pointed out that the Municipal Committee of the party from Kumanovo had no decision to support the...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 14:21

Instead of Brussels, Spasovski and Zaev brought Beirut to Skopje

Instead of Brussels, Spasovski and Zaev brought Beirut to Skopje, VMRO-DPMNE reacted after the murder that took place last night in the Skopje settlement Topansko Pole. They say that with Zaev and Spasovski, Skopje has become an unsafe city. Murders with Kalashnikov in the middle of the street have become...
World 05.03.21 | 13:23

Orban: It’s time for a new European right

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban set out to build a new alliance of right-wing European parties after he pulled Fidesz from the European People’s Party (EPP), the center-right group in the bloc’s parliament. Our task is clear. Now without the EPP we must build a European democratic right,...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 13:10

Osmani: If necessary, Bulgarians will be mentioned in the Constitution to feel like citizens with equal rights

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani told TV21 on Thursday evening that Bulgarians in Macedonia should feel like free citizens with equal rights. Bulgarians in Macedonia should feel like free citizens who can be organized as a collective community, and they will have all the rights, and if necessary,...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 12:18

Latinovski: Janakieski and Ristovski did not contact me regarding the April 27 protests

The city committee did not make any decision related to the protests for “For United Macedonia”, said the former mayor of Butel, Petre Latinovski at today’s trial in the events of April 27. He assures that he was never contacted by Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski regarding the protests. I...
Macedonia 05.03.21 | 12:03

Ruskovska appears at a trial after being criticized for not coming to court

After being criticized for not attending trials in several cases, and even being asked to be dismissed, prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska appeared today at the trial in the April 27 events. She usually did not appear at this trial and sent prosecutor Ivana Trajceva in her place. Ruskovska was present today,...
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