Macedonia

Three weeks and nobody to blame for the Lepenec, the water found someone in hours

The river turned white with foam, the analyses are nowhere. A message about the water got a press conference, a...

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Hexavalent chromium 30 kilometres from Rašče, and the clean-up costs under one percent of the budget

If that chromium reaches water, the water becomes unusable for everything. The landfill has stood for decades, and the mistrust...

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Inspectorate Halts Kumanovo Municipality's 1.6 Million Euro Borrowing

The state inspectorate found no public hearing was held before the decision. The mayor insists the hearing comes later.

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Macedonia

3,341 Freshman Places in Stip: Enrolment Lasts Just Three Days, Applications Up 28 Percent

Twelve faculties, three academies and three days for a decision that lasts four years. Medicine and IT are pulling the...

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For Nineteen Days Ohrid Is Selling Itself as a Sports Destination, Not a Postcard

Over twenty events on the lake, a Balkan open-water swimming championship and four concerts. A photograph does not fill hotels...

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Police Officers Turned Away From Chemotherapy: Interior Ministry Staff Left Without Health Insurance

The Fund says the contributions were not paid. The Ministry says they were. Standing between those two claims is a...

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Macedonia

From 88 Percent in May to the First Layer of Asphalt in August: the 850 Metres Dracevo Has Been Waiting 14 Years For

Queues all the way to OHIS, and on site only road signs and a closure. Four mayors later, the 850-metre...

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An Illegal Dump Beside the Spring That Supplies a Quarter of the Country, and Everyone Says It Is Not Theirs

The City says the dump is not on its territory and has been there thirty years. Both claims are true...

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Macedonia

25 Pardons for Ilinden: the Names Were Published, the Reasons Were Not

Six fully released, nineteen with reduced sentences. Twenty-five sentences of explanation would have been enough.

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Twenty Residences and 9,000 Square Metres of Forest on Vodno: the Consultation Runs a Month, and Starts in Mid-August

The press release talks about transparency. The plan talks about 29,000 square metres against the approved 6,500, and about erosion...

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A Million-Euro Pitch Under Boards for Three Days: Bitola Lost Its Turf to Two Concerts, and the Utility Says There's No Cause for Concern

The Petar Milosevski stadium passed a UEFA inspection last year. This week it looks like hay. A councillor published the...

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They Buried the Man Who Spent Four Months Stopping the Logging Above Ljubojno: The Forest Stayed, the "Soul of Ljubojno" Didn't

Vasko Tomulevski (44) died on a motorcycle. With a group of villagers he protested for four months and stopped the...

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