Sašo Mijalkov
Ministers Quit as Macedonia's Turmoil Deepens
Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Transportation Minister Mile Janakieski resigned on Tuesday alongside Saso Mijalkov, the chief of the secret police.
A press statement said Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski accepted their resignations and had submitted his proposals for new ministers to parliament.
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Macedonia Officials Attempted Murder Cover-Up, Opposition Claims
Releasing the latest in a series of wiretapped tapes on Tuesday, opposition Social Democrats leader Zoran Zaev said the conversations in the new batch of recordings prove the authorities tried to cover up the killing of 21-year-old Martin Neskovski.
Neskovski was beaten to death the night that the ruling VMRO DPMNE celebrated its election victory on June 6, 2011.
Macedonia Ruling Party 'Distributed State Jobs to Members'
At its 19th press conference in recent weeks on the subject of alleged government wiretapping, the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, on Tuesday presented covertly-recorded tapes that they say further prove that the ruling VMRO DPMNE party of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been systematically and massively employing its own people in all state institutions and punishing those who think diff
Free Speech Threatened in Macedonia, PEN Says
In a joint press statement, PEN International and Macedonian PEN said they felt "deeply concerned" by reports that Macedonian journalists have been subjected to widespread, unauthorized surveillance.
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Macedonia Opposition Leader Faces New Charges
Macedonia's opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev faces fresh criminal charges after being charged with attempted blackmail and for soliciting bribery already.
Now he faces a third charge, of revealing state secrets, after publishing wiretapped conversations which he claimed contained the voice of secret police chief, Saso Mijalkov.
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New Tapes Highlight Chicanery in Macedonian Local Poll
Top officials from Macedonia's ruling VMRO-DPMNE party did every unlawful activity they could think of in order to win the local election in 2013 in the municipality of Centar in Skopje, the mayor of the municipality, Andrej Zernovski, claimed on Thursday.
'Outrageous' Proof of Election Fraud Promised in Macedonia
Zoran Zaev, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, has called on people to join the party when it reveals what it promises will be the "most significant, most insolent and most outrageous examples" of electoral fraud committed by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his ruling VMRO DPMNE party.
Opposition: Journalists Tapped En Masse in Macedonia
Over a hundred Macedonian journalists were wiretapped, including the editors of pro-government media as well as journalists that critique the government, opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev announced on Wednesday while unveiling his fourth political "bombshell".
Macedonian Opposition Tapes Lift Lid on Boskoski Arrest
Macedonia's opposition Social Democratic party, SDSM, published seven more conversations on Friday, which the party said showed the arrest of opposition politician Ljube Boskoski was a setup.
Ljube Boskoski, a former Interior Minister and former leader of the United for Macedonia party, was arrested on June 6th 2011, one day after the general elections of that year.
Hahn Tells Macedonia to Investigate Surveillance Claims
On his first visit to Macedonia, the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood policy and Enlargement negotiations, Johannes Hahn said opposition claims about government surveillance of thousands of citizens need investigating.