Venice architecture biennale: the country of macedonia has participated this year at the architecture biennale with their presentation of a tunnelled pavilion exhibiting the project ‘no man’s land’ curated by architect Stojan Pavlekski and designed by a team at macedonian studio stone design. The entrance to stone design’s steel curving tunnel pavilion is marked with an illuminated ‘back door’. the exhibition explores the relationship between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’, the ‘cataphatic’ and the ‘apoptotic’. this is illustrated by …
Organized by the Institut Français in Skopje, this festival has grown to become one of the biggest events devoted to French cinema in the Balkans. This year's event was held from June 15 through 18, split between the Macedonian capital of Skopje and the city of Ohrid. The 9th edition of the festival opened to a packed theater, with a screening of Rachid Bouchareb's film Road to Istanbul held in the presence of its lead actress, Astrid Whettnall. In the three days that followed, Macedonian audiences had the chance to see a selectio…
Macedonia's annual industrial output growth accelerated to 5.3% in May from 3.6% the month before, statistics office data showed on Wednesday. The improvement was driven mainly by the manufacturing industry, which posted an annual growth of 11.7% in May, speeding from a 9.4% increase in April, the data, published on the statistics office's website, indicated. In addition, the decline in utilities output softened to 18.4% from 29.5% in April. On the other hand, the drop in mining production deepened further to 19.8% in May from…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias at recently held EU General Affairs Council (GAC) meeting in Luxembourg was verbally attacked by some of his EU colleagues in regard to Macedonia name dispute, Greek media reported. The latest information explain Kotzias’s statement in Luxembourg which mainly addressed the situation in Macedonia that was actually a response to what happened at the meeting behind closed doors, MIA correspondent reports from Athens. According to some Greek media, Kotzias at the meeting “suffered unprecedented and…
The Statistics Bureau has published data on sales of construction materials in 2015, which show that the market has grown by 27.8 percent compared to 2014. Construction companies used MKD 11,63 billion (EUR 190 million) on materials during 2015. This includes using fuel for construction, while the main category is binding materials.
Ilinden municipality and the Economic Chamber of Macedonia are to sign memorandum of cooperation on establishment of business club in the municipality and strengthening economy at local level. Signing the memorandum will mean a partnership that will enable effective cooperation between the municipality and the business community aimed at accelerating the economic development and creating favorable conditions for doing business and investment, the Economic Chamber of Macedonia said in a press release. Mayor Zika Stojanovski and Presi…
Macedonia provided huge support for the vast number of refugees who have passed through the region. The way the country dealt with the crisis deserves appreciation, despite the fact that it was just a small part of the refugees who had been forces to move around the world amid violence and tyranny. Over 60 percent of the refugees are women and children, including little children travelling alone, or separated from their parents, and who need to be taken extra care of, read the release of the UNHCR Presentation based in Skopje on the occasio…
We have fulfilled another significant promise to improve the healthcare system in the country. As of today, cannabis oil will be available for purchase without prescription across pharmacies in Macedonia. This oil will be with a less than 0.2 percent THC level, and it will available with two different concentrations of CBD 5 and 7 percent, the Health Ministry informed on Monday. “With this new product, we met the requests of the citizens and the expert community, whose remarks, opinions and suggestions we heard in public debates on this…
Macedonia and the Ministry of Culture in September 2017 will host and organize a ceremony where the Luigi Micheletti Award will be presented for best museum in Europe, considered one of the leading recognitions for innovative museums. The decision of the Board of the European Museum Academy (EMA), made at an annual meeting in May 2016 in the island of Lesbos, is of huge importance for Macedonia recognizing the efforts made by the Culture Ministry by investing in museums, i.e. constructing museums to present the country’s rich cultural h…
According to the latest data of the State Statistical Office of Macedonia, the growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016 was 2 percent. In this quarter, the biggest increase was recorded in sections: K - Financial and insurance activities by 13.3 percent; M and N - Professional, scientific and technical activities; Administrative and support service activities by 11.7 percent; and F - Construction by 7.7 percent. In the first quarter of 2016, Household final consumption, including Nonprofit ins…
Macedonian National Theater (MNT) performs its rendition of Solaris at the Wiener Festwochen festival in Vienna on Friday evening. This theatrical project has been co-produced by the Vienna festival, and directed by internationally renowned Ukrainian director Andriy Zholdak. This is the second time MNT has cooperated with Zholdak, following their Electra in 2014. This time, the theme is Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi novel, which is being portrayed in Zholdak's traditional theatrical style. The play tells of vain attempts to communicat…
Thinking of doing business in Skopje? Austrian businesses now have the perfect opportunity to meet their Macedonian counterparts in the middle of June, at the Palais Kaiserhaus in Vienna. From Telekom Austria through to Wiener Insurance and housebuilding with REHAU, many large Austrian companies are already represented in Macedonia and are happily doing business there. But the organisers of the Macedonia2025 association of business professionals believe there are a lot more opportunities to be developed and expanded. Macedoni…
The 4th Skopje Street Festival will take place in the city park, where over 5,000 progressive Skopje residents, as well as guests of the region countries of all ages, are expected to participate in 5 urban culture creative stages: graffiti, streetball, workshops, dance and a music. This year the festival has included several interactive workshops, such as "Custom Sneaker", "Beats&Breaks" music production workshop with Dutch DJ Propo 88, and "Red Bull Curates" - a project for creative drawing over new …
After the collaboration for the popular TV show Game of Thrones 9th and 10th episodes of season 4, Macedonian animation and visual effects company FX3X, as the cooperators of Digital Symphony, have participated in the creation of the animation and visual effects of episodes 7 and 8, of the 6th season, titled "The Broken Man" and "No One". Game of Thrones is one of the most viewed American science fiction TV shows, produced by the HBO channel, created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The show is adapted after the So…
Aleksandra Janeva who performed the song "For hundred years" won the 31st edition of the Festival of pop music "Makfest". She won the award for the best vocal interpretation, "Dragan Karanfilovski -Bojs". Simona Poposka with the song "I will find another" is on the second place and got EUR 7,500. She also won the award for best stage performance and received EUR 1,000. Third placed is the young singer Antonija Gigovska with the song "About Us", who received EUR 5,000. Gigovska also won…
Railway link between Macedonia and Bulgaria, intensifying cooperation between railway companies, as well as exchange of experience and experts were in the focus of Friday's talks in Skopje between Macedonian Railways-Infrastructure director Irfan Asani and Bulgaria's National Railway Infrastructure Company CEO Milcho Lambrev. Asani briefed Lambrev over the current construction works and projects related to the railway networking between the two countries, expecting the link to be established by 2020 at the latest "If e…
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