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Coalition 'For Better Macedonia' scores electoral victory The coalition ’For Better Macedonia’ has scored victory at the snap parliamentary election, VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski said late Sunday.

Data, processed of VMRO-DPMNE analysis center, say the coalition ’For Better Macedonia’ has won 440,000 votes, while its rival ’Sun- Coalition for Europe’ - 215,000.

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Risks for Macedonia from AMBO pipeline could be larger than benefits Civic associations from Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria are worried that construction of AMBO oil pipeline would have harmful effects on environment, such as increased risk of oil spills in the Burgas region, or passing of the route through protected areas.

According to them, the pipeline would have significant effects on climate, i.e. the amount of oil transferred would annual

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EU disturbed by Macedonia violence The European Union has
voiced deep concerns over the ethnic violence which marked election day in EU-hopeful Macedonia, leaving one person dead and eight wounded.

"The European Commission is very concerned about the use of violence during the election in the country," the EU’s executive body said following Sunday’s polls (1 June), widely seen a

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MRTV staff to go on strike The employees in Macedonian national broadcaster MRTV will go on strike, starting Wednesday, demanding payment of overdue salaries plus food and commuter bonus for the past four months.

Representatives of striker board said the crews and studios, including the mobile teams, will not perform their duties as of tomorrow.

The decision on the walkout was prompted

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Greater stability in the Balkans is lowering crime, reports UNODC The Balkan area is, surprisingly, one of the safest in Europe. The report Crime and its Impact on the Balkans by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) belies enduring stereotypes of the region as a hotbed of organized crime and violence. People are as safe, or safer, on the streets and in their homes as they are in most parts of the world.

Released today, the stud

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Blues and jazz on Vlatko Stefanovski's latest album Skopje - Vlatko Stefanovski promoted his latest blues album titled "Thunder from the Blue Sky". The long-awaited album, published by "Ezoterija Records", has been inspired by blues and jazz roots.

- Herewith I wanted to return and to show respect to the music that I had been growing with. Blues is the mother of jazz and rock’n’roll, hence wit

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Serbian ladies march on French Open Paris, June 2 -- Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic enjoyed starkly contrasting fourth-round wins at the French Open in Paris on Sunday while teenager Ernests Gulbis thrust Latvia on the tennis map.

Second seed Ivanovic played with the urgency of a woman late for a lunch appointment as she ruthlessly dismantled Czech Petra Cetkovska 6-0, 6-0 in 54 minutes on Cour