Tag: Zaev
Macedonia 08.02.21 | 15:19

Witness testified how Zaev pressured her to make a false report that will be used to prosecute VMRO officials

An official of the Transportation Ministry testified today that she was threatened by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, through former Transportation Minister Goran Sugareski, to make a false claim that would be used in one of the political show trials against VMRO-DPMNE officials. Aneta Jordanova worked in...
Macedonia 07.02.21 | 12:49

Zaev rejects Mickoski’s call for early elections in October

Zoran Zaev rejected the request from opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski that the municipal elections in October are used to hold early general elections. Mickoski insists that the numerous failures of the Zaev Government to deal with the healthcare crisis and the veto from Bulgaria, as well as its...
Macedonia 05.02.21 | 19:11

Zaev and Carovska bring supporters from academia to the Parliament to defend their controversial plan to rewrite Macedonia’s history books

Zoran Zaev and his Education Minister Mila Carovska called on a number of supporters from academia to defend their plan to roll elementary school classes into groups. The plan is controversial as it will abolish stand-alone classes such as history – at a time when Bulgaria and Greece demand that...
Macedonia 03.02.21 | 18:57

Macedonia won’t wait for the West any longer and will purchase Chinese vaccines – after Zaev cleared it with US and NATO

After failing to obtain a single dose of the more covered Western produced vaccines, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce (pictured) today announced that the first shipments Macedonia can expect in February will come from China. Initially the Government refused offers from Russia for its vaccine, and was...
Macedonia 30.01.21 | 16:16

Zaev is the biggest fraud in this country, Ziadin Sela says about Zaev’s manipulations with the Good Friday massacre

Both parties in the coalition are frauds and Zaev is the biggest fraud in the country, said Ziadin Sela, leader of the Alliance of Albanians, after the protests of Albanians in Skopje yesterday afternoon. Protesters demanded the release of a group of Albanian islamists charged with carrying out the 2012...
Macedonia Sport 29.01.21 | 15:39

After his attack on the football federation, Zaev sets his sights on the handball federation

Republika has learnt that officials in the Macedonian Handball Federation (RFM) aligned with the ruling SDSM party are planning to take down RFM President Zivko Mukaetov during the upcoming conference. RFM delegates meet on Sunday, after Macedonia got a place in the World Handball Championship, but didn’t...
Macedonia 29.01.21 | 10:33

Zaharieva accuses Macedonia of seeking closer ties with Serbia

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva condemned Zoran Zaev for his announcement that he will reintroduce Serbian language studies in elementary schools. “Macedonia clearly hasn’t severed ties with Serbia”, she said. Zaev’s nod to Serbia reveals the extent of Bulgaria’s...
Macedonia 28.01.21 | 16:03

VMRO: Zaev’s threat to ban Telegram resembles North Korea

Zoran Zaev and his Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski are unable to deal with a scandalous Telegram group where pictures of underage girls are being shared for months, and now over-react and threaten to ban Telegram, said the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. Prime Minister Zaev today said that if the popular...
Macedonia 28.01.21 | 15:16

Mickoski calls on Zaev to resign over Macedonia’s disastrous corruption ranking

When I use the term “mafia” for the Government I’m accused of using too harsh words. But Macedonia is now at its historically worst 111th place in the Transparency Corruption ranking, said opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski after Macedonia had another serious drop in the corruption...
Macedonia 28.01.21 | 10:23

Zaev angers Bulgaria with his pledge to expand Serbian language lessons in Macedonia

A pledge from Zoran Zaev to reintroduce teaching of the Serbian language in schools caused an angry reaction in Bulgaria. Zaev made the promise during the celebration of the feast of St. Sava, an Orthodox saint especially honored by the Serbs. We will go a step further and we will restore the teaching...
Macedonia 27.01.21 | 14:36

Zaev careful not to mention Bulgaria in his Holocaust Remembrance Day message

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev issued a very carefully worded statement on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, careful not to make any mention of Bulgaria, under whose command the deportation of the Macedonian Jews was carried out in 1943. Macedonia is tied in a deep historic dispute with Bulgaria...
Macedonia 27.01.21 | 12:48

RFE video montage: Zaev went from dictating terms to vaccine producers to begging for a shot

Radio Free Europe prepared a montage of all the misleading and fake statements made by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce on the issue of vaccines. Macedonia is among the few countries in the region that still haven’t received a single dose, despite many assurances...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 16:00

Zaev makes a major concession to Bulgaria – then pushes historians to defend it

Even though Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he expects a break-through in the discussion between Macedonian and Bulgarian historians, he left it to the historians to explain what the huge “success” is all about. as Dragan Georgiev, the Macedonian co-chairman of the committee explained,...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 15:32

“Foreign leaders know about Zaev’s crimes and corruption, they ignore him beyond achieving what is in their immediate interest”

Foreign leaders are shocked when they hear about the bribery, the crime and corruption of the Zaev regime, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, who is just back from a tour of the region, during which he met with the Prime Ministers of Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. SDSM and Zoran Zaev rule...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 10:27

Role reversal: Mickoski begins a diplomatic push while Zaev remains isolated at home

Early in his term, and during the preceding Colored Revolution, Zoran Zaev and his SDSM party have enjoyed nearly universal international support. The high watermark here being his signing of the 2018 Prespa treaty with Greece and the imposed name change. Mickoski and Orban discussed Macedonia’s...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 09:57

“Zaev needs to explain his comments about the Good Friday massacre”

The statement by prosecutor Fatime Fetai, confirming there is no new evidence in the trial against the group of Islamists who perpetrated the 2012 Good Friday massacre, has caused a storm in the public. Fetai was once part of the disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office which initiated the retrial,...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 22:44

Zaev’s monstrous lie about the Good Friday massacre brought to light

“There are conversations indicating that the people who are now in prison for this, according to my view of the conversations, I’m not an expert, but there is no evidence for them to be in prison. In the conversations there is no indication who perpetrated this, they were not talking about...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 19:30

“SDSM forced the census law through Parliament without having broad support or holding a proper debate”

The ruling SDSM party forced the census law through Parliament without achieving a broad support or holding a proper discussion, said Nikola Micevski, head of the VMRO-DPMNE group in Parliament, after the ruling majority adopted the law with the narrow margin of 62 votes in the 120 seat Parliament. All...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 22:37

Audio tape between Zaev and Verusevski causes a stir, Nikola Gruevski responds

A new audio leak has elevated political tensions in Macedonia. Published by muckraking journalist Zoran Bozinovski, it shows Prime Minister Zoran Zaev negotiating a deal in 2016 with former security chief Saso Mijalkov from the then still ruling VMRO-DPMNE party, through an intermediary. Brief excerpts...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 18:43

Zaev: With Bulgaria we are negotiating about the name, about hate speech and minority issues

Regarding the growing dispute with Bulgaria, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that the issues that are now being debated include the minority issues, the name that will be used, hateful speech between the countries and historic issues. Zaev insisted that he will not negotiate about the Macedonian national...
Повеќе
Next Page »

Macedonia News

.