Tag: kumanovo
Macedonia 15.12.22 | 11:23

Bomb threat reported in Kumanovo as well

A bomb threat has been reported in the Kumanovo “Miladinov Brothers” elementary school, the authorities from the school and the parents’ council confirmed today. Teams of the Kumanovo police department are on the ground, the students and teachers have been safely evacuated, the director...

Macedonia 15.11.22 | 19:31

Incident causes inter-ethnic tensions in Kumanovo, Mayor Dimitrievski calls for calm

Inter-ethnic tensions in Kumanovo are on the rise after a reported attack. Police and local authorities are not revealing details about the incident, but a local Albanian TV station published a video of a group of man chasing a lone target through the streets. Local Albanian parties are blaming Macedonians...

Macedonia 29.10.22 | 10:42

Official close to Oliver Spasovski involved in the “hidden properties” scandal

VMRO-DPMNE called out additional SDSM party officials for corruption, as part of their revelations of hidden properties. In one instance, Dobrin Petrusevski from Kumanovo, close to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, has built a gas station and received approval from the Ministry to set it up as a vehicle...

Macedonia 21.05.22 | 14:52

Attempt to reconcile the feuding SDSM factions in Kumanovo failed

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski was in talks with his former party SDSM to return to a high level position, in an attempt to heal the rift that developed last year, but the talks failed, Fokus reports. Dimitrievski took more than half of SDSM voters in their stronghold of Kumanovo with him, won the...

Macedonia 10.05.22 | 11:46

Kumanovo attackers say they will continue to work for a united Albania

The group of Albanian terrorists who carried out the deadly attack on Kumanovo in 2015, and are now imprisoned in Macedonia, were again invited on live television, for a Kosovan news station. In the interviews ,they said that they do not regret the attack and continue to work for “national unification”. The...

Macedonia 03.05.22 | 14:29

Mayor Dimitrievski: Macedonians in Kumanovo see the UCK as an occupying force

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski said that the construction of the memorial tower dedicated to the UCK in the near-by village of Slupcane is seen in Kumanovo as a provocation. The large, ethnically mixed city was besieged by the UCK during the civil war in 2001, and left without water for months, during...

Macedonia 02.05.22 | 21:27

The UCK tower does not bring the country closer together, Kumanovo Mayor Dimitrievski says

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski said that the large monument to the Albanian UCK terrorist organization, inaugurated today in the village of Slupcane near Kumanovo, does not help to bring the country together. Dimitrievski is pushing to build a monument to the Macedonian special police officers who...

Macedonia 29.04.22 | 12:25

Dimitrievski announced the construction of a memorial in honor of the defenders in the 2001 conflict and members of the Ministry of Interior in the Divo Naselje events in Kumanovo

The Mayor of the Municipality of Kumanovo, Maksim Dimitrievski, today announced the construction of a memorial in honor of the defenders in the 2001 conflict and the members of the Ministry of Interior from the unfortunate events in Divo Naselje in 2015 in Kumanovo. I expect at one of the next sessions...

Sport 28.03.22 | 16:56

Mural featuring Stole Dimitrievski in his native Kumanovo

A mural featuring Stole Dimitrievski was painted in his native Kumanovo. The Rayo Vallecano goalkeeper became very popular in Macedonia due to his great saves, and is especially beloved by the female audience. Artists Mladen Trendevski and David Stoilkovski made the mural in order to support the team...

Macedonia 14.03.22 | 16:33

Kumanovo police officer badly injured when a driver ignored his order to stop

A police officer from Kumanovo was injured yesterday evening when a motorist ignored his stop sign and hit him. The driver continued until he hit a parked vehicle. The officer sustained serious injuries.

Macedonia 14.02.22 | 19:57

Locals in Kumanovo mobbed the house used by a small Jewish religious group

The house in Kumanovo where members of the Jewish religious group Lev Tahor are residing was egged overnight by a large group of locals and the metal door was ripped off. People from Kumanovo have mobbed the group due to their strange appearance and have gathered in front of the house to tell them that...

Macedonia 11.02.22 | 15:01

Migrant found dead near Kumanovo

A man, likely a migrant, was found dead near the village of Recica, near Kumanovo. The body was found in a pond, without traces of violence. It was found out by locals yesterday early afternoon. The Kumanovo region is on the migrant route that leads from Greece to Serbia and then north, toward the core...

Macedonia 22.01.22 | 11:50

Energy crisis: If we pay fuel subsidies, as the Government wants, the city of Kumanovo will have no money for infrastructure in 2022, Mayor Dimitrievski says

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski dismissed calls from the Government that local authorities hand out fuel subsidies to the citizens, as Macedonia faces a major energy crisis. The Government mismanaged and corruptly led the REK Bitola coal plant, leading to a collapse of domestic production and over...

Macedonia 28.12.21 | 11:13

Group of 53 illegal migrants from India and Cuba stopped near Kumanovo

Kumanovo police found 53 illegal migrants in a truck that was headed toward Skopje. A 39 year old man from Gevgelija was transporting 34 people from India and 19 Cubans – which is a rare occurrence on the Balkan migrant route. The migrants were sent to the Kumanovo center, and the driver is detained.

Macedonia 15.12.21 | 15:32

Kosovan President Osmani would cooperate in Zaev’s planned review of the Kumanovo terrorist attack trial

Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani and Stevo Pendarovski discussed today the plan by the Zaev regime to reopen several extremely divisive criminal cases – including the 2015 attack by a group of Albanian terrorists on the city of Kumanovo and the 2012 massacre of five Macedonians, including four youngsters,...

Macedonia 15.12.21 | 12:00

Kumanovo: Charges filed against the father of a young traffic accident victim – he tried to send contract killers against the driver

Prosecutors in Kumanovo filed charges against the father of the young Jelena Filipovic, who was killed in a traffic accident a year ago. The father is charged with trying to get two people who owed him money to kill the driver and others associated with the accident. The 17 year old girl was killed when...

Macedonia 08.12.21 | 19:27

Kosovo official will visit the Skopje prison, but it’s unclear whether he will meet with members of the jailed terrorist group

Uncertainty clouds the visit of Kosovan Deputy Justice Minister Blerim Salahu to Macedonia planned for tomorrow, after he announced that he intends to visit the group of Albanian terrorists jailed for the 2015 attack on the city of Kumanovo, in which they killed eight Macedonian police officers. The...

Macedonia 06.12.21 | 22:43

Interior Minister Spasovski endorses Dimitar Kovacevski as new SDSM party leader

Dimitar Kovacevski, the candidate handpicked by Zoran Zaev to lead his SDSM party, met with supporters today in his hometown of Kumanovo, where his father was Mayor. Kovacevski came supported by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, who earlier this year fought a bitter fight with Kumanovo Mayor Maksim...

Macedonia 09.11.21 | 20:33

No answer from Spasovski about whether he’ll resign after losing the mayoral race in Kumanovo for SDSM

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski refused to answer to reporters who were asking him if he also intends to resign after the devastating defeat in the local elections. Spasovski’s personal animosity with the SDSM Mayor of Kumanovo Maksim Dimitrievski forced Dimitrievski to launch an independent...

Macedonia 03.11.21 | 12:18

Dimitrievski calls for the removal of two of Zaev’s most corrupt assistants

The Mayor of Kumanovo Maksim Dimitrievski, who was ejected from the SDSM party by Zoran Zaev over his independent re-election bid, called on the party to throw out some of Zaev’s most corrupt advisers. Zaev is announcing a resignation from both the Government and the party leadership position in...

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