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20 March 2012

Macedonia: March for Peace as “First Step.” What Now?

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

Thousands of people turned out to express their willingness to live together in peace by walking the streets and bridges of Skopje during the March for Peace on March 17. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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17 March 2012

Macedonia: Peace March - Enthusiasm, Controversy

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The upcoming March for Peace in Skopje has overwhelming support, evident through the positive uproar in social media. Lone voices, however, warn the initiative is used as a PR opportunity by celebrities, and even as a hypocritical alibi for known hatemongers.

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15 March 2012

Macedonia: Fuel Prices Continue to Rise

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

Continuous increase of fuel prices is a cause of much concern for citizens of Macedonia, and some vent the tension through humor.

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14 March 2012

Macedonia: March for Peace Scheduled for Saturday, March 17

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The people of multi-ethnic Macedonia are organizing a March for Peace this Saturday as an expression of concern that the recent hate crimes are a harbinger of civil war. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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8 March 2012

Macedonia: ‘Academic Solidarity' Against Free Speech and Scientific Method

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

A young woman, gender scholar, human rights activist and blogger, who dared to speak truth to those in power in Macedonia and stood up against entrenched homophobia, ended up with a ruined academic career. Filip Stojanovski reports on the case of Irena Cvetkovik.

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29 February 2012

Macedonia: Skopje's Pollution Monitoring Saga Continues

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

NGO Greenbox is compensating for the lack of web interface for the air pollution measuring system in Skopje by posting photos of the display on their blog. Filip Stojanovski writes about the initiative.

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9 February 2012

Macedonia: Problems With Transparent Online Reporting of Air Pollution in Skopje

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The city-owned "Skopje Breathing" online system, which informed residents of air pollution levels, stopped functioning in early January 2011. Filip Stojanovski translates a local NGO's explanation of why this important tool is unlikely to be fixed.

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21 January 2012

Macedonia: Policeman Who Beat Young Man to Death Gets 14 Years

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

On January 16, Igor Spasov, the police officer suspected of beating a young man to death during the celebration of election victory in June 2011, received a sentence of 14 years in prison. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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29 December 2011

Macedonia: Twitter Hashtag for Prime Minister - #Ж

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The Macedonian Twitter community is using the hashtag #Ж (uppercase of the Cyrillic letter romanized as Zh or Ž) as the shortcut symbol referring to the Macedonian PM. Filip Stojanovski explains why.

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6 December 2011

Macedonia: Is Skopje Really the Most Polluted City in the World?

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

Unlike the authorities, social media users are reacting to the empirical information about high levels of pollution in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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Updates about Macedonian

15 May 2012

Estonia

Sandra Jürs blogged in Estonian about her participation in the Skopje Marathon/Half-Marathon [mk, en] on May 6, 2012.

• Filip Stojanovski

8 May 2012

Macedonia

Greenbox blog reported [mk] that the Green Coalition and NGO Lenka would hold a protest in front of Veles court on May 9, 2012, at 11:30 AM, before the start of the trial of the environmental activist Igor Smilev, who has been accused of endangering security & defamation by the manager of Мetrudhem, a corporation that aims to restart the local lead smelting factory. Lenka also published a legal opinion [mk] refuting the accusations, based on the activist's rights enshrined in international conventions, the Constitution, and national laws.

• Filip Stojanovski

19 April 2012

Macedonia

Greenbox blog reports [mk] that Toni Dimitrievski, director of Мetrudhem, the corporation that intends to restart the lead smelting factory in the city of Veles, has filed a lawsuit against environmental activist Igor Smilev for “endangering security,” “unauthorized recording,” “slander” and “insult,” requesting EUR 20,000 in damages. So far, only one political party, DOM, a junior “green” member of the vast ruling coalition, has protested [mk] against this “immoral” form of pressure. Before moving into the private sector, Mr. Dimitrievski had served as head of the Public Revenue Office and as an appointed manager [mk] of the state-owned Tobacco Company in Prilep.

• Filip Stojanovski

30 March 2012

Macedonia

Vo živo.mk (”Going Live” in Macedonian) is a new service dedicated to providing video streaming and recordings of civil society events in Macedonia. The first event to be covered is a public debate on “What kinds of scientific research and teaching are enabled through the new Law on Higher Education?” scheduled to take place on Friday, March 30, at the GEM Club [mk].

• Filip Stojanovski

20 March 2012

Macedonia

DarjanR, ArsovaM, and Angie_Mkd have issued a call [mk] for participation in creating a pocket-size book with the most interesting tweets, and invited other Macedonian Twitter users to submit their favorites. They are also trying to crowdsource the design, printing and publishing. Proceeds will go to charity. One of the first users to respond was i999y, who started posting [mk] excerpts from his collection of funny tweets on his blog.

• Filip Stojanovski

Bosnia Herzegovina

Vnukot joined the debate about Angelina Jolie's movie by emphasizing the technical imperfections, and was especially unnerved [mk] that “all the characters in the film speak the languages related to Bosnia, the Serbo-Croatian as it was known then, or today's Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian language. However in Angie's ‘masterpiece' all of them, from a general… to the victims that have only one line before they get a bullet in the head, literally everybody, speak like Russian mobsters in some cheap American movie filmed in a cellar for USD 5,000. If this concept is remote to you, imagine a broken English interview of a Macedonian miss/mister universe/world candidate in China [1, 2, 3] - this film is worse!”

• Filip Stojanovski

8 March 2012

Macedonia

A new Macedonian blog aggregator Blogirame.mk (”We blog”) started working on Feb. 29, 2012. Founded by three popular twitterers/bloggers Pipo, Necovski and Iskric, and hailed by the community (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), it invites manual submitting of sites, which can be used as an indicator of the quantity of active bloggers. Almost 200 blogs have been enrolled so far. [All links are in Macedonian.]

• Filip Stojanovski

Spain

Biljana Veljanoska, a Macedonian woman living in Spain, wrote [mk] about the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the Euro, and the related PR campaign from 2001, which argued that prices will not increase. In general, they have increased (31%), more than the salaries (13%). On the other hand, prices for appliances and cars have Hodropped. Today “older people still count large amounts of money in [pesetas], while the young don't remember them.”

• Filip Stojanovski

5 March 2012

Macedonia

As a reaction to the corporate efforts to enact an even more draconian legislation and in response to the attempts of the distributor of the film Downfall to take down the Hitler meme on copyright grounds, Ribaro published [mk] an animated parody of the iconic scene, free for download and re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License.

• Filip Stojanovski

Macedonia

Diversity Media Production, a non-profit organization whose goal is to advance journalism, freedom of speech and democracy in Macedonia, has announced [en, mk, sq] the winners of the competition for young news bloggers: Novica Nakov, Fatlume Dervishi, and the authors of MK Demokratija blog - Monika Petrovska and Maja Peroska.

• Filip Stojanovski

Comments on "Macedonian"

Macedonia: Lead Smelting Company Sues Environmental Activist

It's interesting that emphasize the hobby of Igor Smilev in the context of this lawsuit. That throws off the story...

A Macedonian blogger suggested to change the word in the title from funny to interesting, as the documented tweets could...

Trajanovski loses the debate immediately when he refers to a cartoonist in the same breath along with Goebbels!!
This march had plenty of publicity and notice, but frankly a turnout of only two thousand (cited in every article...