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23.04.2007 [Risto Karajkov] Monday, 16 April 2007 the trial against Macedonia�s former Interior Minister from the time of the ethnic conflict in 2001, Ljube Boskovski, started at The Hague Criminal Tribunal. Together with him accused is also Johan Tarculovski, a police commander of the special police forces

Immagine: Ljube Boskovski all'Aja

Macedonia: The New Business Heaven in Europe?

17.04.2007 [Risto Karajkov] Identifying the very low level of foreign direct investment as one of the serious causes of the slow growth of the local economy, the Macedonian government launched an aggressive campaign aimed at attracting foreign businesses to �Discover the New Business Heaven in Europe�: Macedonia

Another Brick in the Wall?

29.01.2007 [Risto Karajkov] The latest enlargement was greeted with not much fuss in Macedonia. Life goes on and very few politicians responded with statements or analyses. Bulgaria, being closer, receives more attention. Romania is already far away

Kosovo, region of Europe

11.12.2006 One year of negotiations between the Belgrade and Pristina delegations in Vienna has produced no result other than to harden the opposing positions. In the next weeks, the delegates of the great powers, as in the XIX century, will decide the region�s future

Piacenza, Macedonia

06.11.2006 [Risto Karajkov] Monospitovo is a village in the region of Strumica in the eastern part of the country. Known for its green house gardening. Over the last several years 50-60 families per year have been migrating, most of them to Italy

Immagine: Sopra Strumica, sotto Piacenza

EU and Macedonia: Do People Make Changes?

11.10.2006 [Risto Karajkov] ''Do not change people to make changes'' said recently the EU to Macedonia. Along with support and encouragement for the new government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, the political leadership of the country has started to receive its first warnings and disapprovals from Europe

Macedonia: New Government

31.08.2006 [Risto Karajkov] "Greater economic growth, investment, de-politicization and professionalism of the public administration, reduction of bureaucracy, and uncompromised fight against corruption", are the promises of the new Macedonian government to its citizens.

Immagine: New government

Macedonian National Television Faces Collapse

23.08.2006 [Risto Karajkov] After a prolonged period of crisis, employees of the Macedonian Radio and Television (MRT), the public media service in the country, went on strike

Macedonia: Difficult Times Ahead of the Social Democrats

11.08.2006 [Risto Karajkov] After the defeat in the national elections on 5 July, the leading opposition party in the Macedonian camp, the social democrats - SDSM, undergoes strife and divisions.

The cold summer between Sofia and Skopje

01.08.2006 [Francesco Martino] In 1999 Macedonia and Bulgaria signed a bilateral agreement, wherein they committed not to interfere with each other�s internal affairs. Since then their relations have been quite friendly, in spite of the old quarrels about history and language, which have never been solved and keep re-emerging

Macedonia: An Environmental Hot Spot Revives Public Concern

30.06.2006 [Risto Karajkov] Veles, formerly known as Titov Veles, population circa 50.000 is a city in central Macedonia, some 50 km south of the capital Skopje. In addition, it is one of the most polluted places in the Balkans

Immagine: All'interno dello stabilimentio di lavorazione del piombo a Veles - UNEP

Macedonia: The Importance of an Election Year

19.06.2006 [Risto Karajkov] As election frenzy rises with the approaching of the general elections in Macedonia, one thing is clear - a lot depends on them. On 5 July voters will go to the polls to elect the new parliament. Things have to go smoothly this time

Macedonia's Border with Kosovo

11.05.2006 [Risto Karajkov] A last round of public disquiet over the border issue between Macedonia and Kosovo seems appeased with yesterday's visit to Skopje of Kosovo Prime Minister Mr. Agim Ceku. The border issue is of technical nature, they agreed, and it cannot disrupt neighborly relations

Immagine: Sar planina, al confine tra Macedonia e Kosovo

Grand Trial for Traffickers

08.05.2006 [Risto Karajkov] The biggest ever criminal proceedings in Macedonia started in April bringing to trial 28 people accused of human trafficking. They are accused to have been part of a well organized transnational network that has been smuggling migrants from Macedonia into Greece

Immagine: Anti-trafficking

The Death of Macedonian Village

19.04.2006 [Risto Karajkov] Silence, desolation, houses in decay, lifelessness. This is a common sight from the Macedonian countryside. As odd as it may seem in a country as small in territory as Macedonia, its rural parts are dying out.It has started more than 50 years ago. But its consequences are more and more visible with time

Carnivals in Macedonia: Between Paganism and Modernity

31.03.2006 [Risto Karajkov] Many towns and villages in Macedonia maintain carnival festivities, but two of them are particularly important - Vevcani and Strumica. It is said that the Vevcani carnival is as much as 1.400 years old, the one in Strumica is more recent but much bigger, and festivities last for 5 days

Immagine: Strumica - Carnevale 2006

Yugo - Nostalgics of All Meridians - Unite!

21.03.2006 [Risto Karajkov] "At the Marshal's", a new place on the map of center-town Skopje, is a house of remembrance and nostalgia, and a unique memorial place which pays respect to Tito, all of this combined with the smell of traditional Balkan cuisine. A restaurant. Dedicated to the Marshal and his country

Immagine: Foto R. Karajkov

Macedonian Hostages in Iraq Freed

22.02.2006 [Risto Karajkov] Two Macedonian citizens, who were kidnapped last week near Basra and held hostage, were released yesterday after ransom was paid.Faruk Ademi and Rasim Ramadani were kidnapped near Basra, where they worked for Ecolog, a multinational contractor of the British army

Immagine: Soldati inglesi a Bassora

Bulgarians, a vanishing people?

14.02.2006 [Francesco Martino] Ethnic Bulgarians have a very low birth rate. According to some, this could put at risk the economic growth, while others are afraid of the unstoppable growth of the Turkish and Roma communities. Bulgaria is stirred by demographic anguish, and now president Parvanov decided to act

Macedonian Telecom: Can't Let Go

19.12.2005 [Risto Karajkov] A citizen from Skopje climbed a telephone post last month and cut the wire. A final individual act of bitter resentment against the monopolistic behavior of Macedonian Telecom. This is but the most radical of citizens' outcries against the arrogant conduct of the Telecom over the past 4 years in Macedonia