Vlado Jovanovski
Macedonia's Former Ruling Party Protests Against MPs' Arrests
Several hundred people led by Gruevski and other high-ranking VMRO DPMNE party members protested on Tuesday amid a heavy police presence in front of the Skopje Criminal Court, where the suspects who were arrested in the morning were taken before a judge.
Macedonia Arrests Ex-Police Chief, MPs for Parliament Unrest
Police on Tuesday morning detained Cavkov, the former head of the uniformed police, and several VMRO DPMNE MPs over the storming of parliament in April.
They are being charged by the Organised Crime Prosecution with serious crimes against the state.
Threats Target Macedonia Opposition Talks to Form Govt
As the opposition Social Democrats continued to discuss forming a government with ethnic Albanian parties, a mysterious group called Hardcore, which describes itself as a Macedonian patriotic organization, called on ethnic Macedonians to join a protest march in Skopje on Friday.