Macedonia

Lake Dojran is filling up again: but the pumping system sat switched off for six months right before the worst month of the year

200 litres a second are flowing into the lake. The level is 145.26 metres; the agreed minimum is 146.13. The...

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Macedonia

Struga gave its bars an extra hour, and two on holidays: the decision covers twenty-one separate dates until the end of the year

The council voted through extended hours for the tourist season. The bar owners' interest is obvious. The question is whether...

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Macedonia

High schoolers in Veles will map the institutions a wheelchair user cannot enter: the Post Office, the tax authority and the municipality itself are on the list

The pension fund, the Central Registry, the employment agency, the social work centre. Every employee at those entrances already knows...

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Macedonia

Forty riders set off for Kruševo: the 48th Ilinden march, with people from the Strumica, Gostivar and Radoviš areas

Two hundred kilometres of road ahead of them, ending at Mečkin Kamen. Ilinden is the holiday we talk about most...

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Gostivar is not letting up: 127 new examinations in a single day, and the paediatric number is climbing

4,197 first examinations in thirteen days, 833 formal case reports. Two weeks after the contamination, the tap water still cannot...

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Macedonia

The Momin Potok interchange is at 75 percent and promised for New Year: construction started in 2021

Two kilometres of retaining walls, five bridges, 60 million denars. Expropriation jumped from ten percent to a hundred in seven...

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Macedonia

Four days of white foam in the Lepenec and the Vardar, and the polluter is still unknown: the drone went up on day one

Environmentalists want the plant shut down and a public register of past fines. The river cleaned itself, as it always...

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Macedonia

Hundreds of fallen trees in Skopje will become benches and firewood: 60 new saplings against an entire forest

The City of Skopje has a plan for where the timber goes - pavilions for Vodno, benches, firewood for vulnerable...

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Macedonia

A memorial plaque for Ciborowski in the Old Bazaar: the man who said no to erasing old Skopje

63 years after the earthquake, Skopje thanked the Polish urban planner who fought to keep the Old Bazaar standing. Had...

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Macedonia

Electric buses for Skopje - but the tender is still under appeal, and Momin Potok is at 75 percent

New municipal equipment is promised for the end of August, while the buses are still waiting on legal proceedings. The...

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Macedonia

Češinovo-Obleševo picked up the fallen storks: two are already ready to fly

The storm knocked young storks out of their nests, and municipal staff bring them water and food every day. A...

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Macedonia

Snow on Pelister and Musala in the middle of July: from 26 to 12 degrees in a single day

At 2,601 metres the rain turned into snow, and Bitola lost half its heat in 24 hours. If you have...

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