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Macedonia's Waterfalls Are Quietly Drying Up: The Price of an Ecocide No One Answers For

Small hydropower plants, illegal logging, and droughts are killing the Smolari and Koleshino waterfalls. A waterfall doesn't protest and doesn't...

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Repairs Begin on the Estakada Bridge in Gazi Baba: It Will Either Hold Quietly, or Talk About Itself Again

Thousands of vehicles cross one of Skopje's key crossings every day. Skopje's bridges have been „repaired" for decades, and yet...

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A Full Working Day Without Power in Saraj, Sopište, and Petrovec: Why Do „Planned Works" Last Six Hours Each

For some households the outage lasts nearly the whole day. Citizens accept that the grid needs maintaining - but they...

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Cleanup Weekend: 70,688 People Collected 685 Tons of Waste, So Where Were the Officials Paid to Do It

Over seventy thousand volunteers pulled out 685 tons of trash in one weekend. Voluntary cleanup is fine - but it...

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Warm Morning, Jittery Sky: Macedonia Faces Afternoon Storms With Hail, Up to 34 Degrees

Sun before noon, storms in the afternoon. For farmers, hail isn't a weather item - it's the difference between a...

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Macedonia Gets Its First AI Center, Vezilka: 6.5 Million for a Macedonian Language Model

The idea is good - a homegrown language model instead of foreign tools that garble us. The question is whether...

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83 Years Since the Vatasha Massacre: Twelve Young Lives Macedonia Does Not Forget

On June 16, 1943, the fascist occupation executed young people from Vatasha. A people that forgets its past most easily...

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Taxi Meters Wildly Rigged, Driving Without Licences: Even the Taxi Drivers Themselves Want Order in Skopje's Chaos

The bill for the free-for-all is paid by the passenger - with an expensive ride and dubious safety. But why...

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A New Church in Knezhino Near Kichevo: the Village Gets a Foundation for a Church, but Who Will Attend It in Ten Years?

The metropolitan blessed the foundations of a new church. But the spiritual uplift and the survival of an emptied village...

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Poposki Warns of a Summer Storm: Downpours, Wind Over 70 km/h, and Possible Hail

After the heat, a sudden cooldown - but not a painless one. The forecast is clear; the question is whether...

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Skopje's City Train Starts September 1: 18 Minutes to the Transport Centre Instead of 65

Three times faster and four times the capacity of a bus. But Skopje is a city of grand openings that...

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Katlanovo and Part of Saraj Without Power for Seven Hours: Why Does a Network That's „Being Modernised" Need Such Long Outages?

Planned, they say - but seven and a half hours without power is no small thing for any household. Spoiled...

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