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BIRN nevertheless obtained a copy of the report, which confirms that certain key goals of the strategy were not met. As BIRN previously reported, the report confirms that no money was allocated from the state budget for implementation of the strategy, leaving it reliant on the goodwill of donors.

When COVID-19 stopped the world in its tracks, BIRN sought to provide its readers with fast, credible information on the pandemic, as well as shine a light on the state of digital rights in these unprecedented times.

She was paid much more than what she could expect to earn doing the same job in Bulgaria, but the work was sometimes a "nightmare", she said.

In Gracanica, a village of some 200 residents, councillor Nehro Rovcanin began receiving complaints about the new project. "No one should have been allowed to build in such a beautiful part of the country," he told the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN. "It violates the environment and it goes against the interests of the people."

BIRN Kosovo Director Jeta Xharra has been criticised after she and a camera crew visited the Infectious Disease Clinic on Prishtina in Tuesday, where dozens of COVID-19 patients were being treated, to see if it was possible to gain access.

The Financial Police Directorate told BIRN that, as a director of ALFA SKOP DOO Skopje in 2013 and 2014, Kazic failed to report profits of 61.8 million denars, roughly a million euros, "thus failing to calculate and pay profit tax in the amount of 10 per cent of the total."

ALFA SKOP DOO is the owner of Alfa TV, one of six national broadcasters in North Macedonia.

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"We have come to express our revulsion and dissatisfaction with the reduction of the sentence of the criminal Darko Tasic. We will now go inside with a group of five family members and talk to the president of the court and see what he will tell us," Selami Hoti, a representative of one of the families of the victims of the Krushe e Vogel/ Mala Krushe massacre, told BIRN.

Nineteen organisations from Southeast Europe have joined forces in a newly-established network that aims to advance the protection of digital rights and address the growing challenges posed by the widespread use of advanced technologies in society.

This video has been produced by ARTE and published by BIRN, as part of our publishing collaboration.