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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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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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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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34 Years Since 11 August 1992: The Anthem Survived Every Change, the Flag Lasted Three Years and Brought a Blockade

36 anthem submissions, three finalists and a song written in Struga in 1941. And a flag that cost an economic...

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850 Metres That Waited Three Decades: Boris Trajkovski Boulevard Gets Its Asphalt, and the Real Obstacle Was Neither Money nor Machines

The City of Skopje announces the first layer of asphalt to Dracevo. The chronology shows the section was stuck over...

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The First 30 Electric Buses in December, the Other 120 Over a Year and a Half: The Tender That Starts With the Word "Finally" Every Time

The appeal was dismissed, the contract follows, and delivery is spread over three instalments up to 18 months. In the...

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After the Volkovo fire, residents aren't asking for more firefighters but for a mower: two-metre grass next to houses

Neighbours with hoses and shovels waited for the fire engine. Then they asked for something cheaper than any aircraft -...

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The first Macedonian bishop to serve on Mount Athos in 36 years: concelebration is recognition, and the Tomos is still unsigned

In Orthodox tradition you do not concelebrate with someone whose status is disputed. Which is why one liturgy at the...

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