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The three current and former engineers of Krusik, the Serbia-based factory which manufactures weapons and ammunition, arrested yesterday over, as Serbian media said, suspicions of espionage to the benefit of North Macedonia-based ATS Group, will be taken for a hearing procedure before the Higher Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo, Kanal 5 said in a report at around 3:30 pm ...

Five prisoners from the Suto Orizari prison are still at large, the institution’s head, Filip Andov, has confirmed for Telma, the TV station in a report at around noon. Four of them have been missing since Monday morning and one escaped on Friday. In the same report, Directorate for Execution of Sanctions Acting Director Aleksandar Pandov was quoted as saying ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road conditions. ...

In an interview with Telma, PM Mickoski says regarding the Judicial Council and Council of Public Prosecutors politics shouldn’t interfere. “We say that they themselves should elect the Councils’ members. Prosecutors and judges themselves. That’s the reform. An autonomous budget, them electing themselves. However, we must oversee spending of taxpayer money. We would like to do that through a committee ...

On Monday, PM Hristijan Mickoski met Ambassadors of EU countries in North Macedonia. The meeting saw a discussion on the current political and economic situation in the country, as well as on its EU path progress. The PM briefed the Ambassadors on the new government’s commitments to implementing key reforms in the judiciary, fight against corruption, economic growth, and investments, ...

The Interior Ministry has filed a criminal charge against DUI leader Ali Ahmeti’s nephew, Drin Ahmeti, who is suspected of concession abuse regarding a mine near Kicevo. The charge also covers the manager of the company from 2008 to 2017. Several Economy Ministry employees are suspected of unscrupulous operation because they had the duty of supervising the concession. From 2016 ...

At a press-conference on Monday, Directorate for Execution of Sanctions Acting Director Aleksandar Pandov, commenting on the Suto Orizari prison situation, alleged that the institution’s head, Filip Andov, would use verbal orders to ensure a transfer of prisoners to the open and semi-open ward in order for them to be able to leave whenever they want. “Not even Pablo Escobar ...

The State Department has said that Alexander “Sasha” Kasanof is the new US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Balkans as well as Press and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Kasanof is succeeding Gabriel Escobar, whose term ended in May. “He served previously as Executive Assistant to former Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland ...

Criticism of DUI’s idea for authentic interpretation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) has continued. “DUI’s greatest pain is that it is currently an opposition party. They still cannot accept that, which is why they are turning to such topics that are full of nationalism,” VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonijo Milososki stated. SDSM, too, finds unacceptable the efforts to legalise the so-called ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road conditions. ...