DRESS REHEARSAL

DRESS REHEARSAL

Not that the parties won’t do their best to spoil this Ilinden as well. I get anxious just thinking about the venom politicians will spew at one another. They’ll call for unity while spreading hatred that only deepens our divisions. And we’ll be...
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NICE ROPES

1 35 years after declaring independence, it’s clear our country has become a natural disaster. We don’t seem to mind that our soil is polluted. We don’t mind that our air is polluted. Now we don’t even mind that our water is polluted. Nightclubs...
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A BLOOMING BUD

1 The Criminal Court acquitted former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in the “Talir 2” case over the illegal donation used to build the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters. The statute of limitations expires next month anyway, but more importantly, with the acquittal there’s no...
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TIME-BASED TICKET

1 However hard I try, I simply can’t imagine what goes on inside the heads of party foot soldiers elected by the public to Parliament, municipal councils or the City of Skopje Council. Do they leave half their brain on the bedside table every morning and, relieved of...
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A HOSPITABLE APPROACH

1 Where are children supposed to see that it’s wrong to beat other children? Where are they supposed to see that it’s a punishable act? If the video of a girl beating a 12-year-old peer in Skopje’s Aerodrom municipality hadn’t surfaced on social media, while...