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Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

The presidential race continued on Monday. The candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, held a meeting with citizens in Rankovce, Kriva Palanka and Staro Nagoricane. “The doors towards the EU and NATO are open. Therefore, we must use this moment to continue the positive changes,” he stated. The SDSM-led coalition also held a rally in Kumanovo, where Pendarovski ...

The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, has changed his stand. On Monday, he said the administration sector would be ready once the negotiations with the European Union started, even though three days prior, in Brussels, he had stated that it had neither the capacity nor resources for such a thing. According to him, in cooperation with other ...

Black bags full of documents and registers from the Interior Ministry’s third building were burned down at the Brest location, which is located at the airport in Skopje, in the military part.  This was stated at Monday’s hearing over the Fortress 2 case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, by Interior Ministry employee Mirce Micevski, in the capacity of witness. ...

On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE called on the presidential candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, to expel Gjorgji Galetanovski, who heads the Central HQ in Skopje, from his team for allegedly insulting the candidate supported by Hristijan Mickoski’s party, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova. As spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski pointed out, it’s about a comment posted by Galetanovski on his Facebook profile. “They’re ...

The presidential candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, would receive 38.3% of votes if the elections were held tomorrow, the results of the Rating Agency’s poll, published on Monday show. The candidate supported by VMRO-DPMNE, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, would receive 33.2%, while the candidate supported by the Alliance for Albanians and BESA, Blerim Reka, would get 12.6%. According ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

Another televised debate between the three presidential candidates was held on Friday. On MTV1 TV, the candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, the candidate supported by the VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, and the candidate supported by the Alliance for Albanians and BESA, Blerim Reka, talked and answered questions about many issues, including the transition period in the ...

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) is deploying nearly 50 observers, including 31 parliamentarians, to Macedonia next week for the 21 April presidential election. The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office has appointed French parliamentarian Sereine Mauborgne as Special Co-ordinator to lead the short-term OSCE observer mission. Austrian parliamentarian Reinhold Lopatka will lead the OSCE PA’s delegation of observers. “This election presents an opportunity for ...

z Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the Smiljkovci killings. “Seven years later, we’re still waiting for justice for our children. We feel lied to and manipulated. The pain in our souls will never go away. It’s still unclear to us why they were killed and what their blame was. Where are those pieces of evidence? The silence and hiding ...