Oliver Spasovski

Amid claims that opposition MPs in Macedonia are under massive pressure - including death threats - not to support the government's deal with Greece in parliament, Macedonia's Interior Ministry has said it will use all legal means to protect them.

Blagoevgrad. For the second time, the prime ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia, Boyko Borisov and Zoran Zaev, will celebrate together the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. This year, Borisov and Zaev will mark the 115th anniversary of the uprising in Blagoevgrad.

The European Union and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have agreed to allow EU border guards to be deployed in FYROM if the country, which borders Greece, faces "sudden migratory challenges."

A judge who sentenced the former prime minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, to two years in jail last month has been under 24-hour police protection for the past two weeks due to threats made against her, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said on Friday.

Journalists from almost all media outlets in Macedonia and NGO representatives protested on Monday in front of the government in Skopje, demanding tough sanctions for a politician who recently abused the head of the journalists' union, ZNM, Naser Selmani.

After three months in hiding, Greek police have arrested two former FYROM secret policemen, Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskoski, wanted in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) for their alleged involvement in the country’s illegal wiretapping scandal.

The two men were arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday under a warrant issued by FYROM.

Bulgaria's Minister of Interior Valentin Radev participated in a quadripartite meeting between Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Albania, held in Thessaloniki on 5th of October. The main topics of the meeting were migration, countering terrorism and organized crime.

Zoran Zaev revealed the composition of his cabinet late Sunday, which parliament is expected to approved this week. Speaker of Parliament Talat Xhaferi has set the date for the session to start on Tuesday.

The key posts are to be shared between Zaev's Social Democratic Party, SDSM, and Macedonia's main ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.

The Social Democrats' vice president Radmila Shekerinska and the party's secretary general Oliver Spasovski are almost sure candidates for key ministerial posts in the new government led by the Social Democrat head Zoran Zaev, BIRN has found out.

Far from resolving the long-standing political crisis in Macedonia, Sunday's tight election outcome hints at an even tenser situation that could easily spill over into violent incidents, observers warn.