Monthly Archives: March 2019

Central heating Pipe leak Affects part of Documentation at SPO

On Tuesday, a central heating pipe leak affected part of the documentation at the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). It’s about documents being gathered as evidence in the Empire, Three hundred and Spy cases. According to the SPO, it has the documents also in electronic form, while the destroyed ones, if necessary, will be renewed. All documents concerning the Empire case ...

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PS Xhaferi to have Final say Over 11 laws not Signed by President Ivanov

PS Talat Xhaferi will have the last say also on the 11 laws President Gjorge Ivanov has refused to sign because they contain the country’s new name. They are expected to be sent to the Official Gazette only with Xhaferi’s signature, as was the case with both the Prespa Agreement and the Languages Law. However, they will first need to ...

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Detention measure for ex-PSB Director Cavkov

Former Public Security Bureau (PSB) Director Mitko Cavkov was on Tuesday taken to the investigative prison in Suto Orizari. He’d been issued a detention measure because of operational data sent to the Prosecutor’s Office by police about him planning to escape. On Friday, the verdict for Cavkov needs to be announced over the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. He ...

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Government denies Speculations about Initiative for exchange of Statues

In response to speculations by media in Greece that the Greek Culture Minister Zorba Myrsini has proposed an exchange of statues between Skopje and Athens that will see Warrior on a Horse head to Athens and The Runner move to Skopje, Macedonia’s Government said on Tuesday there was no initiative for an exchange. “The Prespa Agreement is signed in order ...

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Activities organised to Mark 76th anniversary of Deportation of Macedonian Jews

The 76th anniversary of the deportation of Macedonian Jews was marked on Monday with several activities. FM Nikola Dimitrov laid flowers at the statue commemorating 7,144 Macedonian Jews that were in 1943 taken from Skopje to the Treblinka camp. As he said, even after 76 years, the pain, sadness and bitterness over the monstrous attempt to destroy the Jewish people ...

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Parliamentary debate on No-confidence Motion against Minister Spasovski

Within the frameworks of its 86th session, Parliament debated the no-confidence motion against Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski filed by the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE. “We filed it because it is high time for this Minister to leave the position which, as he has proven many times so far, he has no capacity to hold,” VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group coordinator Nikola Micevski ...

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Anti-discrimination Law adopted After new Protest held by Organisations

Tens of NGOs that are part of the National Network Against Homophobia and Transphobia staged a protest on Monday, calling for urgent adoption of the Anti-Discrimination Law at Parliament’s session. “We urge MPs to take the citizens’ side and vote through the law, as has been announced and promised several times so far. We are revolted by the fact that ...

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Alliance for Albanians describes Special Prosecutor’s Office Law as ‘farce’

“The Special Prosecutor’s Office Law is a farce. In the reform process, we don’t accept it in this form,” the Alliance for Albanians’ Surija Rushidi said on Monday. As he added, it is another attempt to “close the eyes” in front of the international community before a start of EU membership negotiations. “This is yet another political game, as was ...

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Presidential race: Three candidates Collect necessary Number of Signatures

Stevo Pendarovski, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova and Blerim Reka are the only presidential candidates that have collected the necessary number of signatures. The other candidates haven’t even come close to the required number, 10,000. One of them has collected just three signatures. The deadline for citizens to check whether their names are part of the voter list expires in three days. ...

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Trust case: Court of Appeals partially Accepts first-instance Court’s verdicts

On Monday, the Court of Appeals in Skopje partially accepted the verdicts from the first-instance court in the Trust case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which concerns an ELEM tender worth 17.3 million euros. Defendant Sead Kocan’s six-year prison sentence was reduced to four years and eight months, while defendant Vasilije Avirovic received a two-year suspended sentence, that is, ...

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