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Judge who hid 350,000 EUR in a secret compartment ordered into house arrest

The Skopje Criminal Court ordered Appeals Court judge Gjoko Ristov into house arrest. Ristov is charged with accepting bribes in a major money laundering and…

20.01.2026

Macedonia
Macedonians mark Vodici – Epiphany

19.01.2026

Macedonia
Zaev and Filipce tried to intimidate doctor Mitrev to sell them his hospital

19.01.2026

Macedonia
No reports about the location of judge Ristov, who hid 350,000 EUR in the walls of his home

19.01.2026

Macedonia
Prime Minister Mickoski calls on the prosecutors to investigate allegations that Filipce extorted a major hospital

18.01.2026

Macedonia  | 28.10.2025

DUI affiliated heads of the Skopje garbage removal company will spend a month in detention

The Skopje court ordered Sabahudin Rustemi and Aki Saiti, the director and manager in the Skopje garbage removal company KHS, into detention for 30 days.…
Macedonia  | 27.10.2025

Kicevo Mayor recorded cursing his own city

A new audio recording of Kicevo Mayor Fatmir Dehari was shared online. While the previous recordings showed the key DUI party candidate in the second…
Macedonia  | 27.10.2025

Boki 13: SDSM funded its 2017 local elections campaign with dark money

In a new interview, former SDSM party insider Bojan Jovanovski - Boki 13 disclosed how that party used dark money to fund its 2017 local…
Macedonia  | 27.10.2025

Skopje trash crisis: police detains head of the garbage collection company

Skopje police detained Sabahadin Rustemi, head of the KHS garbage collection company. The move comes after weeks of mismanagement of the company, which stopped collecting…
Macedonia  | 26.10.2025

Brvenica: Mickoski strongly condemns nationalist comments from VLEN mayoral candidate

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced the removal from office of Hakim Ramadani, head of the municipal inspection bureau, who is also the VLEN party candidate…
Macedonia  | 26.10.2025

Mickoski again warns the opposition against pushing for early general elections

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski again warned the opposition parties about their calls for early general elections. These calls were widespread among DUI and to some…
Macedonia  | 25.10.2025

Levica refuses to endorse the VMRO candidate in Kicevo

Levica refused to endorse the VMRO mayoral candidate in the hotly contested race in Kicevo. Doctor Aleksandar Jovanovski is running against former Albanian guerrilla commander…
Macedonia  | 25.10.2025

Gjorgjievski promises to clean up Skopje in 72 hours

Frontrunner in the Skopje mayoral race Orce Gjorgjievski reiterated his promise to clean up the city 72 hours after his election. Skopje is facing a…
Macedonia  | 25.10.2025

Following disastrous election day results, head of the SDSM branch in Skopje resigns

Gjorgji Galetanovski - Combe, head of the SDSM branch in the capital Skopje, announced his resignation after the disastrous local elections. SDSM won only 5…
Macedonia  | 25.10.2025

Mickoski asks voters to turn out and give VMRO 60 mayoral seats

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski urged voters and VMRO supporters to come out in large numbers and support the party's candidates in the second round of…
Macedonia  | 24.10.2025

Tetovo Mayor Kasami withdraws his support for DUI in the race in Kicevo

Tetovo Mayor Bilal Kasami began to backtrack his calls to Albanian supporters to vote for Albanian candidates - even from DUI, the chief rival of…
Macedonia  | 24.10.2025

Mickoski expects more than 130,000 votes in the second round in Skopje

In an election rally in Valandovo, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that he expects VMRO-DPMNE to win in up to 59 municipalities and that the…
Macedonia  | 24.10.2025

Ahmeti denies media reports that he plans to resign after the second round

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti today denied reports in the Albanian language press that he intends to withdraw from politics after the second round of…
Macedonia  | 24.10.2025

Nikoloski rejects SDSM speculation that the UK wants to open migrant camps in Macedonia

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski denied media speculations that Macedonia is open to allowing the United Kingdom open migrant camps in Macedonia. Nikoloski is the…
Macedonia  | 23.10.2025

Mickoski on the Bulgarian demands: we need guarantees that this will be the last of it

Speaking during the celebration of the Day of the Macedonian Struggle and the founding of the VMRO organization, Prime Minister and VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski…
Macedonia  | 23.10.2025

Detention and house arrest for 12 members of a loan shark group

The Skopje Criminal Court approved today detention and house arrest for 12 suspects charged with money laundering and operating a loan shark group. The suspects…
Macedonia  | 23.10.2025

Electoral commission officially declares 33 mayoral races as finished

The State Electoral Commission today formally confirmed that 33 municipalities elected mayors in the first round of the local elections. The SEC rejected all 57…
Macedonia  | 23.10.2025

Mickoski warns the opposition on their early elections requests: be careful what you wish for

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski warned the opposition today - be careful what you wish for - when talking about their requests for early elections. DUI…
Macedonia  | 22.10.2025

Prime Minister Mickoski meets with King Charles

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski met today with King Charles III, at a reception organized during the Western Balkans summit in London. We discussed the friendship…
Macedonia  | 22.10.2025

Mickoski after his meeting with Starmer, other European leaders: our place is in the EU

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski met today with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, during the Western Balkans summit in the UK. During the meeting we discussed…