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Empty classrooms, the Puls trial, arson on Pelister, tenders at the anti-corruption commission

The state recorded everything today: how many children are missing, who should have acted, who set the forest alight, what...

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Nets in Lake Ohrid, the Puls expert testimony, 26 schools, first-graders in Kumanovo

The state moved fastest today where the work was already done: the nets are out, the building has burned, the...

13 days ago Read more →

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Pelister With No Answer, 148 Empty Schools, 307,187 Vacant Flats, a Hole in the Party Finance Law

Institutions produced precise numbers today for everything - from water turbidity to the count of first-graders. Not one of those...

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A bus on Vodno, Štip without water, a third night on Pelister, a wire in Idrizovo

Every statement today answered something accurately - a party accusation, a question about fuel, whatever the police will look into....

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Arson suspected in Pelister, a state agency chief glorifies Mladic, 139 children at Tetovo paediatrics

The fire started in two places near orchards and nobody will say the word arson out loud. A state agency...

16 days ago Read more →

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Eight months unpaid, 101,022 unregistered, Stoilkovikj glorifies Mladic, Nasha TV sale halted

The labour inspectorate is missing for eight months, the interior ministry has three numbers and sends statements instead, and in...

17 days ago Read more →

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September pensions, a hotel behind East Gate, West Nile fever, Mladic in The Hague

The day passed in statements that say everything except the thing you read them for: the motoring association counts roadworks...

18 days ago Read more →

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First-graders and closing schools, West Nile fever, data centres in Pehchevo, Kitka on fire

The map showed the mosquito breeding grounds, the rescue directorate named the arsonists, and the ministry knows the gap between...

19 days ago Read more →

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Hail wipes out 1,000 hectares of tobacco, vehicles vanish before bankruptcy, 14,500 first-graders, the Puls trial

The insurance was legally tied to the purchase contract, then it was abolished. The inspector had a duty to act...

20 days ago Read more →

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Peppers at 25 Denars, a PET Centre That Ran for One Day, Diesel Over 100, Smoke Over Skopje

Today has one repeating shape: something gets announced, signed or promised - and does not survive a single week. A...

21 days ago Read more →

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Fires near Kumanovo, the State Lottery trial, West Nile fever, and a protest in Lagadin

The fire near Kumanovo reached the houses, and the line is held by volunteers with their own machinery. In Lagadin,...

22 days ago Read more →

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Fires above Tabanovce, the modular hospitals case closed, a 68,675-denar basket

Hectares flown over but no word on what was sprayed, routes announced but no passenger numbers, a demonstration drill but...

23 days ago Read more →