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The City Counts Hectares Flown Over, Not What It Sprayed: What's Missing from the Mosquito Programme

The peak of the outbreak is expected in September. Skopje's own paperwork says neither what was sprayed nor in what...

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A Hundred Metres from the Last Houses: Bonce Was Saved by Volunteers Who Came from Bitola and Kocani

31 fires in 24 hours, 23 put out, eight still burning. The crisis chief warns no rain is forecast -...

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After Four Decades Prilep Is Getting Monumental Sculptures Again - and They Won't End Up in a Gallery

This year the "Marko Cepenkov" art colony is making work for public space, and the municipality is funding it for...

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The Rapid Deployment Unit Turns 25: A Drill, Plaques, and One Sentence Missing Its Second Half

The interior minister says crime has grown more sophisticated and modern equipment is needed. The drill demonstrates capability - but...

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The Lawn on the Square Is Being Landscaped - for the Second Time: What Happened to the First Bill

The mayor promises a green oasis where Skopje residents spent years looking at a meadow. But the same patch was...

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A Wolf with Prey, a Chamois After a Long Absence: Pelister's Camera Traps Showed What Comes Back When Someone Is Guarding

The ranger service is working harder and the animals are showing up more often. That is not a coincidence -...

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Kumanovo Puts Out Other Municipalities' Fires, and Its Neighbours Do Not Pay a Single Denar for the Firefighters

Six locations in one weekend, most of them outside its own territory. Dimitrievski said out loud what ZELS has been...

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81 Tonnes of Water Did Not Stop the Fire at Nikustak: an Armoured Carrier with Six Tonnes Waits a Hundred Metres from the First Houses

The fire split into two arms, one heading for the monastery above Matejce. And the villages burning near Prilep are...

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One Anthem Left Unplayed in Pustec, and Rama Answered with "Circus Troupes": the Mayor Who Asked for the Anthem Is the One Who Apologised

Kolefski asked in advance for the Albanian anthem to be played. He was ignored - and then apologised for a...

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Skopje's Transport Company Saved Half a Million Euros on Fuel in Six Months, with 50 More Vehicles: the Question Is How Many Years It Was Leaking Before

A fuel probe is not technology from the future, and a GPS unit is not an innovation. So the difference...

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People in Skopje Wait for the Bus Longer Than They Ride It, and the Transport Company's Answer Contains Not a Single Number

An hour at a bus stop is not a technical fault, it is an attitude towards people's time. And a...

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An Old Kitchen Becomes Two Playrooms: 50 More Children at the Ilinden Nursery, Total Capacity 650

A solution that needs no new building and works faster than any investment. But 650 children in one facility is...

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