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A FEEL FOR GUT FEELINGS

 "I have a gut feeling," said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, "that soon high-ranking officials from the previous SDSM government, former prime ministers, heads of government...

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PREGNANT WOMEN BEING PREGNANT

Wow, what a week. With NASA's Artemis 2 mission, humanity has ventured farther into space than ever before. At the same time, US President Donald Trump warned that "a whole...

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NOTHING PERSONAL

The fact that the new State Prosecutor, Nenad Saveski, stripped prosecutor Lenche Ristoska of the two cases she was handling against the ruling VMRO-DPMNE is for the common...

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WHO SHOULD TAKE THE MONEY

I don’t see what’s strange about Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski telling State Public Prosecutor Nenad Saveski which cases he expects him to open. The only new thing is that,...

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50 GRAND FOR HAPPINESS

The director of the State Inspectorate for Agriculture, Vase Anakiev, who is also the vice president of the Socialist Party, part of the ruling coalition, has been arrested on...

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PONTIUS PILATE

The photograph in Parliament from the commemorative session for the 63 people who died in the Kochani fire on 16 March last year, showing President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova,...

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HOUSE ARREST FOR THE SYSTEM

SDK.MK has learned that Institution and System were detained tonight. They were brought in for questioning. Institution is suspected of Negligence in Office, while System is...

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DIGNIFIED AGAINST THE BULL-HEADED

If you told someone, they wouldn’t believe you. The state has been tracking cows in Kriva Palanka and the surrounding villages, farms and forests for 15 years, and still can’t...

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ERMINE FUR COAT

There was once a woman who, every day on her way to work, passed the window of a boutique where a beautiful coat was displayed. On her way there and back, she’d stop and look at...

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FEAR US

If the government is prepared to illegally film a union leader with his children, and even release that footage to the public, where does that leave everyone else? How far would...

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TONI SALI, REVISITED

The senior-year student Toni Sali passed away at 19. He spent 10 years fighting the state to get his unique master citizen number. And since Toni didn’t have a unique master...

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KOMITADJI CHITCHAT

The government has decided to put Macedonian citizens on the back burner in order to protect the rights of citizens of the European Union. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has...

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WITHIN PERIMETER

The World Economic Forum in Davos this year was dominated by talk of a profound shift in the world order. The world is changing. As far as Macedonia is concerned, Davos brought...

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GREENLAND AND PRZINO

Is a traffic violation law worthy of convening a leaders’ meeting? We watched yet another drama entitled “Leaders’ Meeting”. I feel these plays are becoming increasingly dull....

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CARTE BLANCHE

The tragedy in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, which on the first day of this year revived the unsettling images of our own tragedy in Kochani, mustn’t serve as an alibi...

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CUCUMBERS AND BANANAS

In the festive euphoria, and especially as we stand on the threshold of a new year that’s supposed to bring fresh hope, I completely understand Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski...

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JUST AN ILLUSION

One would think that it’s all rainbows and sunshine in our country, judging by how obsessively SDSM has latched onto the issue of accepting migrants denied asylum in the UK, as...

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NICE THINGS

Even if Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski would rather forget Kochani, he’ll be haunted by the tragedy at the illegal nightclub “Puls”, the 63 dead and more than 200 injured,...

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CANNED PEAS

Considering the fact that former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled the country seven years ago, can still make the headlines with a simple post on social media and a...

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PLANNED PILLAGING

Pensioners are a reliable bloc of loyal voters, but you don’t need to be even an average lawyer or economist to realise that a linear increase in pensions simply doesn’t hold...

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MAKE MACEDONIA WHOLE AGAIN

“The Growth Plan is much more than an initiative,” said Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski at the Western Balkans Leaders’ Summit in Tirana, whatever that sentence’s supposed to...

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IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

What’s got into the judges that they’ve finally dared to write to Prime Minister Mickoski and tell him he has “crossed the line of good behaviour”? After three months of him...

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HISTORIC LIES

One thing is certain about these last elections, and that’s that the word “historic” has been completely worn out and stripped of meaning. Truth be told, it started losing its...

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THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

Let these elections just be over already. Not only am I sick and tired of this campaign, but I’m actually embarrassed that we’re even talking about the rubbish all over Skopje....

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MICE AND PEOPLE

If, in 2025, in the middle of a local election campaign, the main topic in our capital is uncollected rubbish and how rats will eat us, what will be the topic of the local...

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PENS AND LIGHTERS

Do political parties underestimate voters that much, or do voters underestimate themselves when, during election campaigns, they fall for T-shirts, caps, and notebooks handed...

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TWO BALLS AND ONE FOR FREE

What are the odds that two convicted men from the same company, sentenced in the same trial, both avoid prison because they’ve each got a testicular hernia? The owner of “Durmo...

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SHOT OFF TARGET

Not a single election since 1991 has gone by without me saying: Get out and vote! I always turn up at the polls because I don’t want to give up the only weapon I have – to...

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82 PROJECTS IN 72 HOURS

Politics is basically a dirty business. And it is to be expected that there’ll be dirty party plots and games, especially before an election. But if your campaign strategy is to...

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HYBRID WORDLE

In just a couple of days, we had three huge toxic fires in the capital, endangering the health of half a million people, we had a double murder in Veles committed by a thug...

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SMILING THROUGH THE POISON

If things have come to the point where the prime minister tells us that the air in Skopje is clean, while our noses sting from the stench and we fall asleep and wake up in smoke...

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THE SMALL EAR

We might as well start taking collective dementia therapy. Or perhaps the Minister of Health, Azir Alium, could import a team of psychiatrists from abroad, just as he’s about to...

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THE PRE-ORDER FAIR

Have you, by chance, heard of exclusive party stores where special prices are available only to members of VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition? If Prime Minister Mickoski and Minister...

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BOGEYMAN

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski claims that the local elections will be unsuccessful, pointing to the possibility of independent citizen lists being submitted with just two...

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HEY, CHIEF

Biljana Ivanovska, a candidate for mayor of the Municipality of Centar supported by “Independent Together,” was fortunate that the chief of police in Skopje wasn’t as zealous as...

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MONUMENT TO STUPIDITY

In the Republic of Absurdistan, a blind man was driving a van when he hit a woman with his wing mirror and killed her, and while the accident was still under investigation, the...

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ARCHIVIST OFF TO THE BEACH

Next time you want to seek justice, when you want to file a complaint about something or report something to the inspectorates, make sure to first ask around whether the...

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FOR YOU

I regret thinking back in high school: What’s the point of maths? Well, this is the point. So I’d be able to tell whether those two or three classmates who were good at maths...

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BULGARIAN MILL

Prime Minister Mickoski announced in an interview with Kanal 5 Television that he’d propose to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev that, together with Bulgaria, we submit a joint...

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TOP MARKS

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski says we’ll show the European Union that “with reforms back home, we will prove to be the best student in the class and that the EU will want...

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SOUL-CRUSHING

After Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski announced that the Government is seriously considering introducing an additional tax on unmarried people, I can’t help but wonder: what...

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A BAG OF MONEY

 Why is Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski boasting about laying new foundations on the rubble he inherited a year ago, when his own foundations rest on illegal construction?...

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HIP, HIP, HOORAY

I believe the Ministry of Finance hasn’t granted approval for the employment of 26 kindergarten teachers in Kochani for over a month, but it has approved the employment of...

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KOCHANI IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER

  I listened to the charges regarding the fire in Kochani that claimed 62 lives, including six children. Almost everything that State Prosecutor Ljupcho Kocevski listed as part...

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A HISTORIC DAY

Let’s grab some popcorn, crack open a beer, and sit back. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have started airing their dirty laundry, just like our very own Danela Arsovska, Vredi and...

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THE DANELA AND VISAR SHOW

  It’s time to let a bit of sunshine and fresh air into our dull Scandinavian everyday lives. Let’s tune in live, let’s watch another episode of “The Danela and Visar Show.”...

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MATHEMATICS AND EMOTIONS

It’s sad that no one in this country seems willing to change the practice of everything being party-driven. Even sadder is the fact that no one seems to mind. Or perhaps we do...

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MACEDONIA 2008

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told the President of the European Council, António Costa: “I can’t stand in front of the citizens and tell them that the Constitution will be...

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FFS, YOU AGAIN?

Sorry Sweden, sorry Norway, and especially sorry Denmark, but Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski claims that “we have demonstrated European, Scandinavian-style management of...

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SCANNER AND STAPLER

The fact that the MPs from the ruling parties didn’t even come out of Parliament during the protest in Skopje to hear our the parents of the children who died in the Kochani...

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