United States Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily once again stepped out of his diplomatic duties and became directly involved in the Macedonian election process, agitating voters in the Macedonian capital. He was seen in the municipalities in Kisela Voda and Gazi Baba accompanied by SDSM activists, speaking to voters, asking them to vote for SDSM. If in the past the US Ambassador was spending countless hours at the SEC Election HQs, now, he has become more of a field activist and is driving from polling station to polling station at…
The first issue of the most famous European tour guide “In Your Pocket” for Skopje, Ohrid and Bitola will be promoted Monday. The guide book was published in 20,000 copies in June this year and distributed to several locations throughout cities. “In Your Pocket” can also be used as a phone app and also via the web site https://www.inyourpocket.com/skopje. “In Your Pocket” is a European city guide publisher and online tourist information provider. As of April 2013, it publishes city guides to 75 destinations and provides free o…
As of 2018, Macedonia will re-brand as a travel destination, said Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism (APST) director Aleksandar Donev on Monday. Donev told reporters during the promotion of European travel guide “In Your Pocket” that current promotion of the country does not follow trends, while brand “Macedonia Timeless” has been exhausted. Project “Platform for Solo Travelers”, which will refer to tourists who want to create their tour and organize their stay in Macedonia by themselves, will be launched next year. “…
The foundation of reconciliation is respect. It is an obligation of your generation because the generation you belong to lives globally, every day you are contacting with other cultures, other religions. You must understand that the other doesn’t want to be tolerated, they want to be respected, President Gjorge Ivanov said delivering a lecture at the prestigious Oxford Union. Referring to the challenges of the modern world, President Ivanov presented to the Oxford students the Macedonian model of coexistence and respect of diversity, …
Macedonia's cultural heritage will be presented at the 23rd International Heritage Fair taking place at the world-renown museum Louvre in Paris on Nov. 2-5. It will be the third representation of the national heritage by the Directorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage. Cultural Heritage and Tourism is the main theme of this year's edition of the fair. The Macedonian stand will display books on well-known archaeological sites, churches and mosques, published by the Directorate, it said Monday. A video showcasing Mac…
In Macedonia, 21.8% (i.e. 450,500 citizens) are poverty-stricken, show 2016 data of the State Statistical Office. Of those, 9% are in the workforce, while 7.1% are retired persons. According to the statistical data, the at-risk-of-poverty rate rose by 0.3% compared to 2015, when 445,200 people (21.5%) were at risk of poverty. In 2014, the at-risk-of-poverty rate was 22.1%, i.e. 457,200 people. The Gini coefficient, measure of income distribution inequality, was 33.6%. Analysed by household types, the at-risk-of-poverty rate in…
The third exhibition of working archaeological photographs titled “Archaeology in Progress” Vol. 3 organised by the Institute of Archaeological Research – Skopje opened Friday evening in the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia. The main goal is to promote the archaeology and to present the best photographs taken in the last couple of years on the archaeological sites in Macedonia and in Europe. The Institute announced competition at which 100 photographs applied. The exhibition will feature 30 photographs selected by professional j…
James Chalmers from the United Kingdom won the top prize of the Festival of Amateur Documentary Film (FADF) for his work 'Eulogy for the Red Telephone', it was announced Friday. The festival's 25th edition is opening Friday evening in Bitola with an awards ceremony. Namely, Golden Camera 300 will be presented to Radovan Dzeric from Serbia for his documentary 'Village in the Heart of the City', Silver Camera 300 goes to two authors from Serbia - Drago Latinovic and Ilija Galonja. A Macedonian author, i.e. Petre Chap…
Having recorded the biggest away win in UEFA Europa League history in Skopje last time out, Real Sociedad will be brimming with confidence ahead of the visit of Vardar on matchday four. Real Sociedad recorded the UEFA Europa League's biggest away win when they put Vardar to the sword with a 6-0 victory in Skopje on matchday three. The Macedonian club may seek damage limitation as their first priority for the return encounter. Previous meetings • The Spanish team ran riot in Skopje, the 6-0 win being the biggest in their Europe…
Slovenian insurer Triglav said on Friday it will enter the life insurance market in Macedonia in early November, by establishing a new company, Triglav Osiguruvanje Zivot. The group has been present in Macedonia since 2007, but only in the non-life insurance market, where it holds the leading position with an 18% market share, Triglav said in a filing with the Ljubljana bourse. "The group is expanding its business to the life insurance segment, as it sees potential for growth in this market due to lower insurance penetration,…
Macedonia's political parties and candidates for mayors closed their electoral campaigning on Friday for the second round of the local elections scheduled on Oct. 29. The election campaign ends Friday while on Saturday Macedonia will mark electoral silence. The first round of local elections was held on Oct. 15 where the Social Democratic Union (SDSM) majority claimed victory in most of the local units. According to Macedonia's election authority, in the first round of voting, the ruling SDSM -- chaired by Prime Minist…
Macedonia's elections on October 15th were conducted in highly illegal manner with SDSM and DUI party activists casting votes in the name of others, often gathering groups of people and casting votes for them. This is highly illegal conduct, particularly in Macedonia where only one person is allowed per voting booth to cast a vote - writes Albanian daily Gazeta Express. The Albanian daily apparently was tipped off of the illegal voting before hand and was able to place a photographer inside the polling station. DEUTSCH
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee has been tipped as the next US Ambassador in Macedonia, sources of Exit in Skopje confirm. With the recent appointment of Wess Mitchell as new Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs by the US Senate, the gap left by former Obama-era Assistance Secretary Victoria Nuland has been filled by the administration of Us President Donald Trump. Since January 20, Yee had looked after Nuland’s duties. It may be expected that Mitchell i…
The Effect of Happiness, the latest Macedonian feature film, started shooting Thursday on locations in Skopje. The film, written and directed by Macedonian director Borjan Zafirovski, is an urban drama about the universal quest for happiness to find the meaning of life. "The film tells the story of Lea, a young girl fighting for her health. While questioning her life, she starts an unusual quest for happiness and can see the effects it makes on other people," the production company New Macedonian Video said Thursday. …
Macedonian fuel retailer Makpetrol [MSE:MPT] said on Thursday it repurchased 920 of its own shares on October 26 for an undisclosed sum. The shares represent a 0.82% stake in the company, Makpetrol said in a bourse filing. The company provided no further details. Makpetrol has a network of 126 fuel stations across Macedonia. The company also has units in neighbouring Serbia and Greece.
Join us in Skopje on Friday for our Telekom Electronic Beats Macedonia launch party with Âme, DJ Koze, Tijana T, Herzel and more. Telekom Electronic Beats is proud to announce that Macedonia will be added to its growing roster of local initiatives alongside teams in Poland, Albania and Hungary. To celebrate the launch of the program, which includes events, a local-language website and more, we’re throwing a big party in Macedonia’s capital city this Friday, October 27 at the Youth Cultural Center with Âme, DJ Koze (pictured above),…
Speaking at a campaign rally in Zrnovci, DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski stressed the six reason why the SDSM was brought to power. 1. Change the Macedonia’s name, language and identity. 2. The ‘agreement’ with Bulgaria in which Macedonia effortlessly gave up its history to the eastern neighbor. 3. Migrants and islamization of Macedonia. 4. Destroy Macedonia from the inside by creating a bi-national country with albanian language as one of the official languages, despite the fact it is unconstitutional. 5. Increase of taxes. 6. …
15 femicides were committed in Macedonia between 2013 and 2016 according to unofficial records, it was revealed Wednesday at a conference ‘Femicides - intentional killing of women because they are women’, organised in Skopje by the National Network to End Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence in cooperation with the UN. Femicide is considered the most severe form of violence against women and could be the result or a direct consequence from domestic violence or intimate partner violence. Elena Dimusevska, executive director of…
President Gjorge Ivanov, at today’s meeting with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk in Brussels, called for “a new impulse and sending a positive message” to unblock Macedonia’s integration into the European Union and start accession negotiations. Responding to a journalist’s question on whether an attempt has been made to accommodate a larger number of migrants in Macedonia for a longer period, Ivanov stated that in 2015 and 2016, the country revealed its position that it only has the capacity to receive 2,000 refugees…
Solo exhibition by Oliver Musovik titled “Corrupt Landscapes” will open Thursday evening at Mobile Gallery of the Contemporary Art Center in the Park of Francophone in Skopje. Musovik’s exhibition will feature several new, never exhibited works-photographic series that reveal spatial practices of corruption and corrosion of the economic and civic order in Macedonia-illegal construction, corruption in construction. Oliver Musovik was born in 1971 in Skopje. He completed undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department …
The possibilities for the construction of a natural gas interconnector between Bulgaria and Macedonia, including the technical, financial and regulatory aspects were explored at the first meeting of the working group between the Macedonian and Bulgarian delegations within the Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of natural gas. The first meeting of the working group was held in Sofia during the official visit of Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi, while the Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of natural gas was signed on August i…
Over the past 10 years it was a real rarity for a death of an infant in a Macedonian hospital. However with the arrival of the Zaev junta, in the past four months alone seventeen infants have died at the ‘care’ of new hospital management. The latest death resulted at Skopje’s gynecology despite attempts by the director at the hospital to keep the information hidden from the media, reports 24Vesti. Back in August 7 infants died at the Chair gynecology clinic in only 10 days due to inability and confusion of hospital staff to follow…
The Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra will start new season 2017/2018 in the new concert hall on Wednesday. The concert titled "New Beginning" will include pieces by Tchaikovsky, Respighi and Strauss, under the baton of Borjan Canev. The new hall, designed by architect Viktor Mihajlov, has state-of-the-art acoustics. It includes two concert halls, a big one with a 1,000-seat capacity, and a small one of 350 seats.
Macedonian wines of type "Vranec" are promoted at events in Denmark's capital Copenhagen on October 23-24. Macedonian Wineries Tikves, Stobi, Dalvina, Bovin, Kamnik, Popov and Popova Kula present their products before distributors, importers, HoReCa and professional wine buyers. Wine critic and judge Darrel Joseph held two masterclasses within the promotional events. вина промоција данска The events are organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, in cooperation with association "W…
Qatar Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani visited possible sites for construction of hotel resorts in Ohrid over the past few days. Sheikh Al Thani met with Ohrid Mayor Jovan Stojanoski, who presented the investment opportunities in the field of tourism and hospitality. The meeting was also attended by representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. After the meeting, the Qatar Sheikh paid a visit to several locations and said he would soon inform the local authorities over their investme…
The NGO Macedonian Cultural Centre in Moscow organizes the Month of Culture of Macedonia in the Russian capital. The events are held in the premises of the Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow. The programme is rich and diverse. The opening event was dedicated to the Macedonian theatre. Actors of Theatre Gorod, Dolgoprudny excellently performed the extract from the play of the playwright Goran Stefanovski “Chernodrinski returns home.” Moreover, young Macedonian singer Darko Todorovski performed before the audience. Books in the fie…
According to the official Sambo federation, Macedonia officially achieved the biggest success on the international stage. The third place at the Sambo World Championship held in Thessaloniki, Greece, was won thanks to Erdal Fakic in the category over 100 kg for adults aged 41-45. Recalling, this sport "Sambo" is a martial art where it combines traditional, folk, martial arts, a mix of wrestling, judo and jewu.
There are 1,503,000 Internet users in Macedonia, i.e. 72.2 percent of the population, while one million have Facebook accounts, show Internet World Stats data. In regional terms, Slovenians have most Internet users (75.5% of the population), followed by Croatia (74.4%). Macedonia is ahead of Montenegro (69.9%), Bosnia-Herzegovina (69.3%), Greece (69.1%), Serbia (67.1%), Albania (66.4%) and Bulgaria (59.8%). In Europe, 659,6 million people use the Internet, while Facebook has 343,2 million users. Almost 100 percent of the populatio…
The former Prime Minister of Greece, who put the proposal for the addition of Northern Macedonia on the table, such as erga omnes, does not exclude another similar geographical addition. There is no mood in the current Greek government Macedonia in NATO to be received with the reference FYROM . In an interview that Gorazd Chomovski made for the tonight's edition of Factor magazine on TV 24, Giorgos A. Papandreou is reminded that he had a dozen meetings with ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. "Whenever we meet, in Brussels,…
Bulgaria and Greece are ready to help Macedonia to implement the reforms necessary for starting the EU accession talks, said the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Ekaterina Zaharieva, in an interview for the Bulgarian radio “Darik.” -For a start, it is necessary to build trust between the political leaderships. They have a long way to go and many reforms to be done in order for to the talks about EU accession to start. We talked with Greece and we are ready to send experts to help the government to imple…
Five Macedonian poets will take part October 23-27 in a poetry caravan across Serbia, including 40 poets and writers from Serbia, France, Germany, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Netherlands, Montenegro and other European countries. Under motto "Going Back to the Roots", the caravan will pay a visit to Nis, Lisine, Despotovac and Belgrade. On October 27, the Macedonian poets and their works will be promoted at the Belgrade Book Fair.
The Republic of Macedonia observes Monday the Day of Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle - October 23. On this occasion, government and parliament delegations will lay flowers at the Goce Delcev monument in the Skopje city park. On 23 October 1893, Dame Gruev, Hristo Tatarcev, Petar Pop Arsov, Anton Dimitrov and Hristo Botandziev at the house of Ivan Hadzi Nikolov in Thessaloniki formed the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, which later on became the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO) or Internal Macedonian Odrin…
Macedonia is expected to register a 1.5 percent economic growth in 2017, the World Bank said Friday in its latest projection on Macedonia's 2017 GDP growth. In its April forecast, the World Bank said that Macedonian economy would grow by 2.8 percent. "Economic growth slowed to 2.4 percent in 2016 and turned negative in the first half of 2017 as political uncertainty affected investment, but is expected to recover closing the year at 1.5 percent," the report said. According to the World Bank, Macedonia's econo…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has confirmed that eight Macedonian nationals were arrested in Slovakia for having false employment contracts. It was determined that 62 people, including eight Macedonian nationals, were arrested on October 17 after the embassy in Vienna, which also covers Slovakia, had contacted officials at the Slovak Foreign Ministry and the country's immigration services, said a spokeswoman of the Macedonian MoFA on Friday. They were arrested while leaving the plant of Shin Heung Precision Slovakia i…
Shtip’s mayoral candidate Blagoj Bocvarski from the ranks of the SDS has tasked his party activists to print out the name of DPMNE’s mayoral candidate Ilcho Zahariev who is very popular in Shtip on numerous items and hand them out to Shtip residents. However, below DPMNE’s logo and Zahariev’s name, the SDS put #19, which is Bocvarski’s number at the ballot. This is fairly clever tactic, although quite low in moral and ethical values, but lets not forget this is the SDS after all, they would sell their own mother to get in power. S…
The Russian Embassy reacted in writing to a statement made by the Macedonian government yesterday regarding the meeting between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Russian Ambassador Oleg Shcherbak. The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the country argues that the government’s statement did not convey the exact messages from the Russian ambassador addressed to the Prime Minister. “The embassy informs that the text of this announcement is not in line with the Russian side and does not represent a completely correct reflection of the separ…
There is general interest for entry of airlines at the Macedonian market and the Ministry of Transport and Communications is negotiating over the introduction of flights to two attractive destinations, says Civil Aviation Agency director Goran Jandreoski in a MIA interview. More than 1,5 million passengers have been serviced at the two Macedonian airports by September, similar to the number of passengers for the entire 2016. "After last year's drop in revenues, we expect a rise in 2017 due to the option of airlines to fre…
A ceremony was held late Friday in Skopje in honor of the 50th anniversary of steel production in Macedonia and the 20th anniversary of the ‘Makstil/Duferko’ company. Addressing the event, Minco Jordanov, the Makstil’s Executive Board President and member of the Duferko Board, notified that just a few companies could celebrate a 50-year production in spite of all challenges. The company, he said, has invested about EUR 70 million in the course of several years in its modernization and environment protection projects. Vice Prem…
The short novel "The Australian Monk" by the talented writer from Sydney, Australia, Dr. Vasko Gjorgievski, came out recently. The book is successfully illustrated by the young illustrator Bube Donska, who is also the author of the cover. And this time, as in the previous three books, the theme is provocative and original. A central character in "The Australian monk" is a Macedonian monk. The author and now, through a profound psychological analysis reflected in several specific situations in which the main charact…
Vardar registered its third defeat in the Europa League, and this one may sting quite a bit after the Macedonian champ went down 0-6 at home. Komiti sang songs to their club after the match ended, as a way to console their players who left the pitch with their heads down. Judging by Vardar’s display, the theme song from Titanic would have been a more appropriate send off. Vardar could have done quite well against Real Sociedad, however, 2-3 weak links in the home side may be undoing the entire team. In premier competitions, the ma…
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