FYROM Journalists Organization Quits Contact With Gruevski’s Government (24-XII-2012) The main journalist union of FYR of Macedonia decided to quit contacts with the government, due to violent expulsion of journalist from the Assembly of FYROM. Vladislav Perunović, correspondent from Skopje, FYROM

The Slovenian MEP Jelko Kacin accused the Nationalistic government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of manipulating the media, provoking Greece, reversing reforms and stated that its an honour to be labeled an enemy of FYROM these days. Jelko Kacin said many uncomfortable truths about FYROM in his interview to BalkanInsight. ” Unfortunately it seems that from 2005  we have complete stagnation and […]

As Professor of Journalism, Roy Greenslade, recently noted in the London Evening Standard, Turkey does not just have a press freedom problem. It is, in fact, the “globe’s leading jailer of journalists“. According to the organisations that compile figures on such things, Turkey has imprisoned more journalists than any other country: more than Iran, more than China, more than North […]

International Federations of Journalists and many others were shocked over the exposure of a recent shocking incident in FYROM’s television. As Utrinski Vesnik yesterday reported, the vitriol started flowing on a debate taking place on Alfa TV’s Zebra show last weekend [ 15-16 May]. Kanal 5 Television host Milenko Nedelkovski who participated as a guest, called for “the liquidation of […]

FYROM’s Journalist’s Association, ZNM, condemned President Georgi Ivanov’s recent attack on local journalists, accusing him of attempting to ”discipline” journalists.   Photo @ Wikipedia.org Ivanov had earlier accused journalists of spreading speculations regarding the on-going name spat with Greece, that Athens could use to their advantage. “This is an attempt to discipline journalists,” ZNM said. The association said Ivanov is […]

The FYROM press has already started its disinformation (see below)*:  They have published that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decisions are binding.  The truth is that they are not.  The reason behind the FYROM press statements is disinformation to the people in the FYROM, but also all over the world that Greece does not abide by the ICJ rules.  […]

Η ατζέντα των εκλογών έχει περιοριστεί σε “ζητήματα της καθημερινότητας“. Υπάρχει τίποτε βασικότερο από το καλάθι της νοικοκυράς; Την εργασιακή ανασφάλεια; Διαφωνεί κάποιος; Δεν είναι άνευ σημασίας πια τα εθνικά θέματα; Δεν πρέπει να κλείσουμε επιτέλους τα ανοιχτά μέτωπα; Εξαρτάται. Σε τι είδους πατρίδα θέλουμε να γεμίσουμε το καλάθι μας; Το μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό του περιεχομένου που δημιουργούν τα ελληνικά παραδοσιακά […]

FYROMacedonian Journalists To Stage Protest Skopje | 01 May 2009                         FYROMacedonia’s journalists’ association on Thursday called its members to join a protest called “Five Minutes of Loud Silence” staged to highlight growing political interference in their work. The action, set for Sunday, envisages a five-minute break of all […]

FYROM’s Journalists Association strongly condemned the government for its intrusive requesting of names and data of journalists working in the local daily Dnevnik.  The newspaper on Friday reported that government officials requested a complete list of all political and economic journalists working in the paper, and their telephone numbers. They gave Dnevnik, one of the most prominent newspapers in the […]