Macedonia

Traffic Lights Sprout on Širok Sokak: The Korzo Got Something Half of Bitola Wanted and Half Didn't Ask For

Installed by the Epinal, going live in autumn after the Manaki festival. Order versus atmosphere - an old Bitola argument...

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Earthquake Near Gjirokastër Woke Up Ohrid Too: The Same Underground Nervousness on Both Sides of the Border

A 3.7-magnitude tremor in Albania was felt in the Ohrid-Struga region as well. It passed with people woken up -...

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Macedonia

One Garbage Truck Out of Four Actually Works: Skopje Drowns in Trash While Spare Parts Wait on "Procedure"

40 degrees, overflowing bins, insects and stench. Three vehicles broken down for months because of public procurement. This isn't a...

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Karpoš's Mayor Hasn't Been Seen Since May 29: If He's Ill He Deserves Understanding, But the Office Can't Just Hang in the Air

Lukrovski's sick leave expired, he never showed up, and the municipality is left without a visible head. Citizens aren't asking...

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A Company a Few Months Old, Tenders Worth 3.4 Million Euros from Čair: How and Why, DUI Asks

NUM CONSTRUCTION, registered at a home address, landed four contracts under two different mayors. An accusation isn't a verdict -...

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73 Million Paid, 29 Million Spent, the Rest "Confidential": How Money Vanishes Behind One Magic Word

A 21-year-old tender, a German firm, and contracts the interior ministry keeps fully hidden. And a school pool in Čair...

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Seven Pelagonia Mayors in The Hague: Dutch Models Are Only Worth Something If Someone Back Home Sits Down to Apply Them

Circular economy, waste, keeping young people - the delegation saw what it looks like when local government actually works. The...

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Kuklica Finally Freed: The Court Booted the Squatters Who Spent Years Charging Entry to a State Wonder

Two people spent years charging entry to a protected natural monument, with threats and unleashed dogs. The institutions just shrugged...

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Macedonia

Earthquake Woke Ohrid and Struga at 05:36: A Weak Tremor, but Also a Quiet Question About Readiness

A magnitude 3 with its epicenter in the lake, no damage. But for a region that remembers devastating quakes, every...

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Fifty Million Euros Sunk by One Missing E-Signature: Why Skopje Is Melting in Buses With No AC

250 eco-buses promised, six delivered. Two tenders dead, a third underway - and the only thing regulating the AC on...

10 June 2026 Read more →

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The Sunken Fountain Returns, the Millenium Cinema and the Library Get a Makeover - and the BRT Is „Coming Soon" Again

Working fountains and taps after eight years are real, verifiable things. But a city's reckoning is measured in doors that...

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After Years of Waiting, the Domes Over Skenderbeg Get a Purpose: a Library in the Heart of Čair

An expensive structure with no content finally gets a plan - a reading room instead of an empty symbol. Now...

10 June 2026 Read more →