Skopje

Relations between Belgrade and Skopje are being tried on account of a signpost at the south of Serbia that refers to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as BJRM (the Serbian equivalent of FYROM). The post gives information on the construction of the E-75 highway at the south of of Serbia.

The government of FYROM has orderd to extend the fence which was raised along the country’s borders with Greece on Saturday 28th, FYROM’s military and police sources told Skopje newspaper Dnevnik.

Macedonia's opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, have demanded an emergency parliamentary session on the subject of air pollution, calling also for the resignation of the Mayor of Skopje, Koce Trajanovski.

Anadolu's bilingual Macedonian and Albanian desk opened in Skopje on Monday as the news agency expanded its operations further into the Balkan region.

The opening ceremony was attended by Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan. The agency's chairman, Senol Kazanci, was also present.  

A 30-year-old Macedonian citizen shot and wounded doctor Ljubomir Ognjenovic in his office in a Skopje hospital on Monday morning.

According to unofficial information, the attacker was "dissatisfied with the treatment the hospital's staff provided to his mother," the Macedonian website Vecer reported.

One doctor and two other people were injured in an armed assault at the Abdominal Surgery Clinic in the Macedonian capital of Skopje on Monday morning.

Media report that an angry patient shot at the doctor after an argument with him, the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) informs.

There is no information on the other two people, who were reportedly injured in the shooting.

The decision of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to rename the archeological museum of Skopje to “Alexander the Macedon” museum has angered Greek officials who are set to complain to the EU and UN. FYROM had made the move just two days after the first round of talks on confidence-building measures, thus undermining negotiations.

Skopje airport authorities have launched an investigation to determine how the former secret police chief, Sasho Mijalkov, passed through airport security and boarded a plane to Belgrade with a pistol. 

Macedonia Online (MINA), a website focusing on issues of relevance to Skopje, reports taht Alexandra Papadopoulou was removed from her post as Greek Ambassador in Brussels because she failed to follow orders related to Greece’s line on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Improving connectivity in the sectors of energy and transport dominated talks between the presidents of Bulgaria and Albania in Sofia on Tuesday.