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Fake news or real failures

We could have titled the following text as "True lies", or "How political propaganda in Macedonia successfully manipulates lies and truth", replacing their places as needed. Let's first ask the "billion dollar question": What is political success? Is it something that falls under regular state management or is it...

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About the "scientific nationalism" of Siljanovska

The Chetnik Duke Vojislav Seselj is proof that a doctorate title and a university professorship are not a guarantee for leading smart policies in society. On the contrary, very often such persons, protected by the titles of "unimpeachable intelligence" can do much more damage to the people than those who do not know how to wrap the naked nationalism in clever phrases...

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A biblical famine threatens the biblical land

In the Gaza Strip, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins as the most sinister in memory in the past decades. Bombs and shells over the five months of war claimed nearly 31.000 lives, and now the scourges of famine and epidemics have descended upon the hapless Palestinian enclave on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. A quarter of the 2,3 million inhabitants and 90...

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Who are you for, the Americans or the Russians?

In the former Yugoslavia, somewhere in the late seventies of the last century, there was a joke that, although everyone knew it, everyone retold it over and over again, and laughed at it over and over again. It went something like this: two meet one alone in a park, they ask him: Who are you for, the Americans or the Russians? This one answered them about the Russians,...

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Burek campaign

"If you have burek, you have everything!" This is how Bosnians say. And after the elections, regardless of the result, we will obviously continue to eat burek or pretzels. If it's about yogurt, those in power will probably think we should thank them with some social media status along the lines of: "Thank you, dear...

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Political travesty: Ursula for the outside, Orbán for the home

Since the public is more or less confused by what happened in Bucharest at the congress of the European People's Party (a group of right-centered parties), here is an attempt to clear up the fog surrounding the content of Mickoski's address and the conversations the VMRO-DPMNE delegation had. Marjan Gjorchev, the doctrinal ideologue of the party, tried to explain...

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