Macedonia

Voting has opened in Macedonia’s presidential and mayor elections in a poll seen as a test of the country’s democratic record. Polls opened at 0700 CET (0600 GMT) and will close at 1900 CET (1800 GMT). The vote is closely monitored by the European Union after last year’s June general …

Displaced people and prisoners ahead of Sunday’s presidential and mayoral elections in Macedonia. Ballot stations in prisons and community centres opened at 0700 CET (0600 GMT) and will close at 1900 CET (1800) on Saturday, one day before the nationwide poll on Sunday.

BERLIN, Germany — Police in Stuttgart on Thursday (March 19th) arrested two men who allegedly provided confidential governmental information to members of criminal groups and foreign intelligence services in Kosovo and Macedonia.

SKOPJE, Macedonia — Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki says Macedonia has proposed different initiatives to Greece aimed at improving bilateral relations that have been strained for the past 18 years over the countries’ bitter name dispute.

The campaign for the joint presidential and local elections in Macedonia ends Friday at midnight. After 24 hours of pre-election silence about 1.8 million people will vote on Sunday, after several weeks of campaigning during which the main candidates have largely failed to inspire voters. The conduct of the elections …

Macedonia’s opposition and some analysts have rebuffed a proposal put forward by the ruling VMRO DPMNE party to dispatch party officials to monitor Sunday’s election, saying its a way to exert pressure on public administration employees to vote in favour of the government’s candidates. They argue that this move will …

One of the leading figures and symbols of the unrecognized Macedonian minority movement in northern Greece, the orthodox priest Nikodim Carknjas claims he is a victim of classic state sponsored repression. He was recently sentenced to six months in prison for beating of a 12 year old seven years ago. …

Several Orthodox Christian believers from Macedonia’s central town of Negotino, worried they would be committing a sin if they vote for Muslim candidate Imer Selmani in this Sunday’s presidential elections, have asked, and got the blessing to do so from their local priest. This unusual request came as the presidential …

Macedonia’s presidential election may fail due to the large number of citizens who are uninspired by any of the candidates and say that they are not inclined to vote, some analysts say. Days before the first round of voting on March 22 opinion polls show that there is a high …

Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker TrajkoVeljanoski visited Belgrade on Tuesday, the first official visit by a Macedonian official to Serbia since Skopje’s decision in October 2008 to recognise Kosovo’s independence cast a shadow over bilateral relations between the two countries. After meeting Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Veljanovsko said the visit as …