Macedonia News

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 subject and we implemented them in a legal solution in March this year. According to international experiences, the cannabis oil can have positive effects on conditions like stress, anxiousness, nervousness, depression and it can also be used to fight symptoms of nausea, sickness, helps in digestive balance and boosting the immune system. That’s why the oil is sold without prescription and is available to everyone. Also, the product will be without t…

Nine medieval terracotta icons from Vinica Fortress will be part of a major exhibition of the Museum of Art and Archaeology Ashmolean at the University of Oxford next year. Presentation is one of the activities of cooperation between this British Museum and Ministry of Culture wherefore Paul Roberts, programme manager of Ashmolean and Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska signed Monday memorandum in Skopje.
The exhibition titled “Religions in Large Empires” will open on Oct. 2017 and will run until Jan. 2018. Archaeological Museum of Macedonia will be responsible for Vinica’s terracotta icons presentation at the event.
Roberts underlined that the exhibition will present the growth of great religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
I am glad that besides Great Brittan and France, Macedonia will also be included in presentation of different religions and periods thus brining nine wonderful terracotta icons from the site near Vinica. They will be very import…

Musical instruments, folklore costumes, uniforms, jewelry and various items and sundries which date back more than 100 years are arranged on the shelves in antique shops in the Old Bazaar, which are some kind of time machines that will take you on a journey in the 19th century through the days of the former Yugoslavia, until the independence of Macedonia.


Antique shops in the Skopje Bazaar, despite for collectors of antiquities, are as well very attractive for tourists who mostly buy traditional Macedonian costumes. But part of the owners of antiques complained that people come in their shop just to take a look at the objects and they joke that they will earn more if they collect money for the entrance.
We visited the antique shop "Pella Antik" which took us back decades ago. On the walls hang military uniforms from the First and Second World War, the time of Yugoslavia, coins, Macedonian costumes ... The shelves are full of traditional Macedonian jewelry, the first Macedon…

The Macedonian Government and the Ministry of Interior are trying to silence the citizens and their constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful gatherings and expression of opinion through organizing public protests and rallies. A few days ago, a scandalous proposal for amendments to the Law on Public Rallies arrived at the Parliament, which suggest illogical and almost impossible conditions for the citizens and the organizers of public rallies and protests, Kurir reports.
According to Kurir, the Government and the Ministry of Interior, through these amendments, further restrict the right to public gatherings and protests, limit the time they would be held, but also increase the number of citizens required to organize such gatherings.
Namely, the most illogical and scandalous change is that the government foresees and forbids organizing public gatherings in front of and around the buildings of the state government, or in front of any state institution.

This raises the question, whe…

Macedonia says fighter jets from neighboring Greece have carried out NATO-linked test overflights of its territory as part of the country’s process of joining the alliance.
The defense ministry said Tuesday’s two flights tested radar and communications coverage of Macedonia.
Macedonia has no fixed-wing military aircraft, and NATO has a program to protect the airspace of members that do not have sufficient means of their own.
Macedonia is set to become NATO’s 30th member by the end of this year, after NATO member Greece dropped its long-standing objections.