Video footage of the Serbian all-girl metal band JENNER performing on March 25 at Rock Club Shadows in Skopje, Macedonia can be seen below. JENNER released its debut album, "To Live Is To Suffer", on February 20 via Infernö Records. Formed in December 2013, JENNER is said to be the only all-girl metal band from the Belgrade area. "To Live Is To Suffer" was made available as a CD and cassette tape, with both formats limited to 1,000 copies each. The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Fact…
Second consecutive win for Macedonia as the Lynx recorded another 3:0 win, this time against a much stronger opponent in Belarus. Liechtenstein and Belarus will be a happy March tale for coach Igor Angelovski and the national team. The 3 points won with a 3:0 score in Vaduz in the 2018 World Cup qualifications were later joined by another great performance. Macedonia defeated Belarus in a friendly in Skopje four days later with the same score, just different scorers. If Nestorovski scored a brace in Vaduz, this time it was Pandev …
Macedonia has been officially included in the list of countries-exporters of fresh beef in the European Union, said Food and Veterinary Agency director Zoran Popovski on Wednesday. "As of March 7, Macedonian meat processing companies and slaughterhouses can export beef not only in EU members, but also third countries. This means distribution to new markets, but also a chance for fresh domestic and foreign investments in the sector", said Popovski. As of January, Macedonia has been also included in the list of countries-expor…
The first review of modern Greek film in Macedonia will be held from 28 to 30 March in Cinema Frosina in the Skopje-based Youth Cultural Centre. Five feature films and a short film “Fig” (Greek-Swedish co-production), which won award for best short film at KineNova International Film Festival Skopje 2016, will be screened. The event is organised by the KineNova Skopje aimed at presenting cinematography and establishing closer communication between the Macedonian and Greek film industries. Special guest of the event will be …
Vardar’s women’s handball team was able to beat Buducnost in the regional VRHL league, even though they had to play without four players from their starting line-up. Andrea Penezic scored the winning goal in the last seconds of the match, for a 28:27 win. Vardar was far more confident in the first half, which it won with 15 goals to 11, mostly owing to solid defending. In the second half, it was touch and go, and the host team was able to even out the game. But, Penezic was in top form, scoring a total of 11 goals throughout the game.…
Another police team left the Czech Republic yesterday to help protect the Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija in the next weeks, Police Presidium spokeswoman Ivana Nguyenova told CTK, adding that this is the ninth police mission of its kind. The team will stay in Macedonia until May 9. Prague has sent a total of 294 police officers within the rotating missions so far, Nguyenova said. "The officers will mainly perform preventive activities, i.e. checks of people and supervision of the public peace, in Gevgelia, a …
The Economic Chamber is organizing Monday a business forum that will bring together representatives of Macedonian and Mexican companies. The forum: Macedonia & Mexico - Opportunities for Business, Stronger Bilateral Cooperation, is organized in cooperation with Mexico's Embassy in Serbia, the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade Investment and Technology (COMCE) and the Agency for Promotion of International Trade and investment - ProMexico. The Economic Chamber notifies the automotive, food processing, creative indus…
The 40th Days of Macedonian Music festival will open Monday evening with a concert of instrumental music of Dragan Dautovski in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. The event, which is organised traditionally by the Macedonian Composers' Association – SOKOM, will offer ten concerts, workshops, presentations, and lectures until April 13. At the concert titled “Apocalypticum” Dragan Dautovski will play tambura, the glass ocarina (globular flute) and a glass pipe – traditional instruments. His son Ratko Dautovski will accompany him o…
A solid majority of Macedonian citizens believe that the December elections failed to resolve the political crisis, a poll conducted by the Institute for Political Research (IPIS) showed. According to the poll, 65,5 percent of the citizens believe that the elections failed in their goal to resolve the two years long political crisis, while 23,2 percent believe they did and 11,3 percent had no opinion. Asked whether holding new general elections would be the way out of the crisis, 45,8 percent of the voters said yes. On the other hand,…
Macedonian national football team captain Goran Pandev was promoted Monday as ambassador of the 2017 UEFA Super Cup to be played in Skopje this August. Pandev thanked for the honor to be the ambassador of the August 8 match at the refurbished 33,500-capacity "Telekom Arena". The UEFA Super Cup is contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. "We will host one of the biggest events organized by UEFA. We are proud to host the e…
Americans for Tax Reform , one of the leading conservative organizations in Washington, joined in the calls to investigate the work of the US Embassy and USAID Mission in Macedonia, saying that if allegations of partisanship are true, "not a penny should be used to interfere in Balkan domestic politics". ATR, an organization led by antitax crusader Grover Norquist, issued a press release on the push by members of Congress to investigate the work of the Embassy which was addressed to the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.…
The Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism will promote Macedonia’s tourism products through a brochure and a short film, as well as fresh promotional materials for exhibition purposes at foreign markets. “The brochure contains authentic photographs and texts on Macedonian tourism destinations. The most significant, historic, archaeological and cultural landmarks, food and wine, rural tourism, events and other tourismrelated attractions are presented at 52 pages”, says the Agency. The 16minute film tickles the curiosity of …
City Tree a green billboard designed to purify ambient air, was promoted Wednesday in downtown Skopje. It serves as a filter to compensate for pollution caused by 417 cars annually. It is easily adaptable and has the effect of 275 trees, but it cannot replace them. The climate change protection project City Tree was promoted in Skopje by the EkoSvest NGO and the German embassy. The same billboard was opened yesterday in Tetovo. The installation consists of many individual pots in which two types of plants have been planted. They ca…
Soros' Open Society Foundation acts as a non-governmental government in Macedonia, and the largest donations it receives are from USAID, former minister Mihajlo Manevski writes, in a column published in Dnevnik daily. Last few months, Soros' Open Society Macedonia Foundation - FOOM, and the non-governmental organizations under its cap, have disagreed strongly and have poured crocodile tears, as if a terrible accident hit them. They complain to representatives of foreign countries, organizations, and ambassadors. They complain …
Ten Macedonian food exporters will be the first companies to exhibit at the center that will be opened on Thursday in Moscow, in cooperation between the Macedonian Embassy, the EurAsian Business Council and the Russian company Macedonian Home. On display will be cheeses and teas, dried and canned vegetables, liquors, wines and other products “Made in Macedonia”. Displayed within the major Moscow business center will be products from Tikves, Popova Kula and Dalvina wineries, the Zdravje Radovo dairy company, Swisslion and many others.…
State Statistics Bureau informed that the unemployment rate for 2016 was at 23,7 percent, and the employment rate reached 43,1 percent. The labour participation rate is 56,5 percent. By numbers, out of 948.599 persons in the active age group, 723.550 were employed and 225.049 registered as unemployed. The results show an improvement compared to 2015. The unemployment rate then was at 26,1 percent, and employment was at 42,1 percent with the labour participation rate at 57 percent. In the fourth quarter of 2016, the unemployment rate f…
George Soros is the man who’s stirring the sovereignty of Macedonia to implement his policy. We saw how his policies were manifested in the Public Office of the President, George Ivanov, said one of the members of the civil initiative “Za zaednica Makedonija”, Bogdan Ilievski. He also recalled on the last year’s events, when the activists of the etc. Colorful Revolution crashed into the Public Office. – You can see that our re-opened Public Office, looks gorgeous with the Macedonian flags, representing the institution President. …
Works for the construction of a 92-kilometer major gas pipeline linking Negotino and Bitola via Kavadarci and Prilep are under way. An estimated €37 million will be invested in the construction. The gas pipeline is expected to be put into function in mid-2019 at the latest. By the end of 2017, Kavadarci will become the first consumer of natural gas with Prilep following suit in September or October 2018. In parallel, nearly 60% of the Stip-Negotino gas pipeline is finished and is slated for inauguration by year's end. A gas pi…
A total of 185,119 pupils attended classes in regular elementary schools by the end of 2015/2016 school year, which is a drop of 1.7 percent compared to the previous school year, statistics show. The number of students in high schools by the end of 2015/2016 school year was 77,625 a 5.1 percent decrease compared to the previous school year, according to data of the State Statistical Office of Macedonia.
The trophy for the winner of the UEFA Super Cup, scheduled to take place at the Philip II National Arena in Skopje, is displayed Saturday in the Macedonian capital. Football fans will get the chance to see in person the trophy, which is displayed at the entrance of the Hall of Football in Skopje. "Our citizens have the opportunity to embark on a unique adventure and all Macedonians can be part of the core of the Super Cup having to see the UEFA Super Cup trophy," said Ilco Gjorgjoski, head of the Football Federation of Maced…
“It is necessary to stop external interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia and to respect the right of Macedonian citizens to independently decide their own destiny in accordance with the fundamental democratic principles. We call upon all political forces in Macedonia and foreign mediators from the EU and US to follow the road for solving the internal situation in Macedonia through dialogue, within the context of the existing legal democratic procedures by respecting the procedures and decisions of the legitimate government, by …
There is a need to understand today’s problems to perceieve the future, said President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov. He made the remarks addressing a panel discussion entitled “The Future of International Relations”, held as part of the Fifth Global Baku Forum on March 16, APA reported. The president noted that that the current period is very frightening to many people. “We are living in a period in which there are terrorists and jihadists. These people are spreading false news to cause fear. What happened so far has reached it…
Double standards of the liberal order have denied us our identity right, but also the right for prosperity, said macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov in his address at the 5. Global Baku Forum on Thursday. Ivanov stressed that Macedonia's independence started by celebrating political liberalism and order, while the idea for freedom had the power to transform the society, the President's Office said in a press release. "Macedonia became the region's leader of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, but was still fac…
Macedonian handball team captain Kiril Lazarov is in the running for the handball Ballon D'Or or Golden Ball award, due to his great performance at the Champions League with Barcelona. Lazarov is the seventh best scorer of the League, with 71 goals, tied with Hulen Aginagalde. Hungarian Gabor Csaszar leads the roster with 84 goals. Vardar's Aleks Dushanbaev is the best scorer among Macedonian handball teams, with 64 goals. Timur Dibirov, Nemanja Obradovic and Igor Karacic, who play for Vardar and Metalurg, also made it int…
Tirana-based Macedonian Association 'Ilinden' has launched a media campaign to stimulate Macedonians living in Albania to openly declare their ethnic origin. The campaign, dubbed 'Hold Your Head Up - Declare Yourself as Macedonian', is launched in Macedonian, Albanian and English language, Ilinden chair Nikolla Gjurgjaj says. "Macedonians are mainly concentrated in Mala Prespa, Gora, Golo Brdo. Ethnic Macedonians also live in Tirana, Elbasan, Durres, Korca and other cities," Gjurgjaj says. The associ…
Six influential senators in a letter to the new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson present cruel criticism towards Jess Baily and thereby request an investigation in the State Department for funds to USAID and George Soros. Among the senators is the former presidential candidate of the Republicans, who comes from one of the largest states, Texas. Despite Ted Cruz, in a letter to Tillerson signed are the Senators Michael S. Lee of Utah, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, David A. Perdue of Georgia, Thom Tills from North Carolina and Bill Ca…
The Macedonian Foreign Affairs Ministry strongly condemned what it called “insulting and inflammatory” rhetoric coming from official representatives of the Republic of Albania. The statement was issued after Albanian member of Parliament Mesila Doda called for war in order to establish a “greater Albania”. “Irresponsible statements from public individuals are not in the spirit of good neighborly relations and the declarations for friendship and cooperation between the two countries. They are certainly not in the spirit of the European…
Six Macedonian institutions and the Government of Japan signed Monday grant agreements worth about EUR 370,000 for projects aimed at improving citizens’ lives. The projects refer to the rehabilitation of elementary schools in Struga village of Draslajca and Kumanovo, equipping the Pelagonija Planning Region with flood prevention mechanization, medical equipment for the University Clinic for Gastroenterohepatology, new vehicle for the Veles fire fighting unit, and new ambulance or the Ohrid general gospital. The funds have been allocated t…
The doyenne of the Macedonian folk music Vanja Lazarova passed away at the age of 86. She will be remembered as a great artist, and one of the best performers of original folk songs. Vanja Lazarova – Dimitrova was born on 27 April 1930, in the village of Stracin, Kratovo. For a while, she worked at the Opera at MNT, and she was also a member of “Tanec” State Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs. She sung about a hundred Macedonian original folk songs, most of which were recorded in production of MRT. She has performed at a grea…
Lino Cervar decided to leave bench of Macedonian national team in order to overtake Croatia in year of preparation for home Men’s EHF EURO 2018. Macedonian Handball Federation informed earlier today domestic media about Cervar’s intention to use clausule in contract with allow him to terminate agreement with them. Macedonia ended 15th at Men’s World Championship 2017 in France. Cervar led Croatia between 2002 and 2010. He was world and Olympic champion in 2003 and 2004 with his country.
The European Union has adopted on Friday an additional EUR 30 million package to help tackle the impact of the refugee crisis in the Western Balkans. The funding will support Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia and the other Western Balkans countries to manage their borders and the migration flows, to accommodate and provide services to the migrants and refugees, as well as to support the host communities. The new funding comes in addition to more than EUR 59 million of the EU assistance already provided to Serbia and the Republic o…
Ahead of Eurovision Song Contest 2017 which is to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, Macedonian contestant released her music video for the song 'Dance Alone'. The song has a new age synth-pop wave with crisp sound and disco rhythm. Video below:
President Gjorge Ivanov was presented with letters of credence of the new ambassadors of Moldova and Argentina to Macedonia, his cabinet said Friday. While being presented with the credentials of Moldova’s Sofia-based Ambassador Stefan Gorda, Ivanov said the two countries shared the same commitments to peace, freedom, security and prosperity in Southeast Europe and beyond urging cooperation between the countries to be further enhanced by intensifying political dialogue at every level. “There are numerous potentials for cooperatio…
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