Sunday, 11 April 2021
Macedonia 11.04.21 | 23:34

Video from Skopje shows a man endangering a child to rob a used clothes donation box

Shocking video filmed near the Skopje City Mall today shows a man lifting a child to raid a large donations container. These metal containers are set up at several locations in Skopje so people can donate used clothes and they are made so that it is very difficult to raid them as they use a heavy metal...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 23:28

Zaev will meet Sela and Gashi to ask them to unblock the Parliament

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will meet with the leaders of the Albanian opposition parties Ziadin Sela and Afrim Gashi tomorrow. Zaev’s intent is to get them to remove their filibuster veto on a number of legislative proposals. Sela and Gashi demand that a law that will grant citizenship to what they...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 22:52

Two key bishops of the Macedonian church are treated from Covid-19

Bishops Petar and Agatangel of the Macedonian Orthodox Church are being treated at the Acibadem Sistina clinic in Skopje with Covid-19. Bishop Petar of Bitola confirmed the news in a conversation with Sitel TV, revealing that he has been hospitalized for 20 days now and expects to be discharged soon. Bishop...

Macedonia Culture 11.04.21 | 21:32

Spanish poet and friend of Macedonia Justo Jorge Padron dies aged 77

Spanish poet Justo Jorge Padron has died of the coronavirus aged 77. Padron was recipient of numerous awards and translated into 30 languages, while he himself translated Scandinavian poetry into Spanish. In Macedonia he was well known as the recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings award in 1989 and...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 17:08

Corona report: with 46 deaths, Macedonia records one of the worst daily tolls of the pandemic

One of the worst death tolls of the pandemic was reported today, as 46 patients died of the coronavirus. Among them was one patient in the 30-ies from Prilep, and two in their 40-ies from Tetovo and Radovis. The total death toll of the pandemic in Macedonia now stands at 4,228. The Healthcare Ministry...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 17:00

Lawyer confirms that Serbian mafia boss has a Macedonian passport

Serbian lawyer Zora Dobricanin, who represents mafia boss Jovan Vukotic, has confirmed that he has a Macedonian passport. Vukotic, one of the leaders of the notorious Shkaljarski clan, obtained the passport in 2018. In an interview last year, Dobricanin said that Vukotic had an authentic Macedonian passport,...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 16:51

Zaev’s midlife crisis chronicles: The Prime Minister was filmed riding his motorcycle along lake Ohrid

Zoran Zaev, his Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce and the rest of their retinue were filmed today riding through Pestani today – a village on the shore of lake Ohrid. Zaev and Filipce were also seen yesterday riding along the Krusevo mountains and reportedly had a popular rural hotel opened up...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 16:36

Zoran Zaev’s cousin Trajce Zaev, who is implicated in a major drug raid, confirms that he is currently in Dubai

Zoran Zaev’s cousin Trajce Zaev, one of the key figures in the family’s businesses including in marijuana growing, confirmed that he is in Dubai. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed at a press conference today that Trajce Zaev is not in the country and asked about his involvement in the seizure...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 12:43

VMRO-DPMNE: Large quantity of marijuana went missing from the farm reportedly owned by Trajce Zaev

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski called on the Zaev family to explain its involvement in the shipment of marijuana that was intercepted on Friday as it was transported from Bitola toward Skopje. Arsovski said that the party has information that 10,000 enumerated stalks of marijuana were missing...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 12:23

Top Albanian Islamist was given a Macedonian passport in 2018

Kosovo Albanian Islamist Fitim Dema was given a Macedonian passport in 2018, revealed today VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki. For days the party has been disclosing names from the list of over 200 criminals, mafia bosses and hitmen who were given Macedonian passports under assumed identities by...

Macedonia Economy 11.04.21 | 11:33

Number of furloughed textile workers rose to 6,000

The number of furloughed textile workers stood at 6,000 last week. Only in Stip, which is Macedonia’s main textile base, 3,500 workers were furloughed – about half of the total number in about 70 mills, said Kiril Naskov from the local textile chamber. Companies are losing demand from their European...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 11:03

VMRO-DPMNE: Trajce Zaev fled to Dubai?

VMRO-DPMNE issued a statement alleging that Trajce Zaev has left the country and is currently in Dubai, after his personal driver Aleksandar Usilkovski was arrested while escorting a shipment of marijuana produced at a farm owned by the Zaev family.  Uslikovski was detained on Friday, along with the...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 10:55

US Embassy says it worked with the police and provided technical support in both the marijuana raids and the passports scandal

The US Embassy stated that it is providing technical assistance to the Macedonian law enforcement after the two major scandals that hit the Zaev regime – the revelations that passports were issued to mafia figures and the seizure of drugs from farms owned by the Zaev family. Yesterday, a media...

Macedonia 11.04.21 | 10:17

Still no comment from Zaev after the drug raids aimed at his family’s marijuana business

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is yet to comment on the police raids on Friday, in which marijuana produced in farms owned by his close relative was seized as it was being illegally trafficked. The police commissioner of Prilep and the personal driver to Zaev’s cousin and businessman guru Trajce Zaev, were...