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Global Voices is no longer as lonely a media voice when it comes to reporting tweets and blog posts. Still, where mainstream media interest wanes, we're the ones who continue documenting local citizen media. Discover our top 20 list of most read posts for 2011.

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China, Macedonia: Chinese Netizens Outraged by School Bus Donation 28 November 2011
Macedonia: Mobilizing Against Veles Lead Smelting Factory 9 November 2011
Macedonia: Protests Against Police Brutality Continue 30 September 2011
Macedonia: Celebrating Basketball Win Over Lithuania 15 September 2011
Macedonia: No Jail Time for Participants in Inter-Ethnic Violence 7 September 2011

Latest stories about Macedonia

19 May 2012

Macedonia: Graffiti Art in “Times of Revived Antiquity”

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Ideas, Freedom of Speech

A short documentary on the Macedonian graffiti scene within the context of the state-sponsored art/construction boom, made by two female scientists and bloggers, has been shown at the renowned archeological conference Buffalo TAG 2012. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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20 March 2012

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

Written by Filip Stojanovski · History, Human Rights

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 · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

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 · Elections, History

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 · Freedom of Speech, Human Rights

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 · Freedom of Speech, Education

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 · Environment, Governance

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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12 February 2012

Macedonia: British MEP Tweets His Emergency Landing at Skopje Airport

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Travel, International Relations

A drama in the air over the Skopje airport received an immediate reflection via Twitter, after a successful emergency landing. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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9 February 2012

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

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Environment, Governance

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 · Human Rights, Law

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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Updates about Macedonia

15 May 2012

English

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

English

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

English

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

18 April 2012

English

At TOL's East of Center, Barbara Frye writes about the situation in Macedonia, following the recent murder of five men outside the capital Skopje.

• Veronica Khokhlova

30 March 2012

Macedonian

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

Macedonian

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

English

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

15 March 2012

English

At civil4tolerance (tolerance-mk) blog, Xhabir Deralla explains why the Macedonian government is responsible for the current rise of interethnic violence.

• Veronica Khokhlova

8 March 2012

Macedonian

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

5 March 2012

German

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.