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[Phoenix]

Great work Vic...loved your passion and words from the heart.

I think yesterday was a good day for Macedonian's across the world...many thanks to everyone who made the effort to attend a protest rally...like Risto the Great said in another thread, it's a shame that we're still protesting some 3 decades later against greek racism and fyromian apathy.

[Risto the Great]

So nice to see you at it Vic.
Well done!
Pity about that accent, but nevertheless, excellent.

[Risto the Great]

Just looking at the videos. Perhaps a standard business card could be drafted and issued with an explanation as to why the Ventilator is (or should be) offensive to Macedonians.

[Tomche Makedonche]

...Pity about that accent, ...

Lol, yeah Vic, you need to get that shit under control

[Vangelovski]

So nice to see you at it Vic.
Well done!
Pity about that accent, but nevertheless, excellent.

Its true Vic, you sound weird. You need to learn Australian.

[Phoenix]

I hope Vic isn't offended by that Aussie sense of humour...you pack of piss taking cunts..

[vicsinad]

Thanks, guys.

And lol at the accent comments. I forgot for a brief moment y'all were from down under.

[Karposh]

Its true Vic, you sound weird. You need to learn Australian.

I hope Vic isn't offended by that Aussie sense of humour...you pack of piss taking cunts..

Here’s something to help you on your way to learning Australian Vic. Just watch this video a few times and I guarantee you’ll be speaking like Phoenix in no time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQT_D1UWzbs

[Risto the Great]

Here’s something to help you on your way to learning Australian Vic. Just watch this video a few times and I guarantee you’ll be speaking like Phoenix in no time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQT_D1UWzbs

Oh my. Yes. Phoenix sounds precisely like that!

[Phoenix]

..you pack of piss taking cunts...

[Vangelovski]

Oh my. Yes. Phoenix sounds precisely like that!

He took your lighter too, didn't he?

[Risto the Great]

He took your lighter too, didn't he?

He just kept hangin' round scoungin' my ciggy butts. The dopey cunt.

[Tomche Makedonche]

https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-zaev-corruption-case-opens/29083355.html

Macedonia's Zaev Pleads Not Guilty As Graft Trial Opens

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has pleaded not guilty as his trial on a bribe-taking charge got under way.

Zaev told Skopje's criminal court on March 6 that the accusation aimed at preventing his political activity while he was in the opposition.

Prosecutors charge Zaev with demanding a bribe of more than 160,000 euros ($198,000) from a local businessman in 2013 to allow the privatization of land in the southeastern town of Strumica.

At the time, he was serving as mayor of Strumica. Zaev became prime minister last year.

The case erupted in 2015 when a video emerged allegedly showing Zaev demanding the bribe from businessman Ivan Nikolov.

Zaev's lawyer, Filip Medarski, said that the meeting between his client and Nikolov took place when "privatization of land was completely over."

Zaev said he had asked the businessman to make a donation for construction of a church.

The next hearing is scheduled for March 19.

The trial had been scheduled to start in early 2016, but was repeatedly adjourned

[Tomche Makedonche]

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/corruption-allegations-rock-macedonia-s-anti-graft-body-03-05-2018

Expenses Scandal Rocks Macedonia’s Anti-Graft Commission

Members of Macedonia’s state Anti-Corruption Commission have started resigning amid a scandal sparked by a report that notes dubious payments that they allegedly awarded themselves

Goran Milenkov, a member of Macedonia’s Anti-Corruption Commission and its former head, tendered his irrevocable resignation to parliament on Monday, amid an unfolding scandal about dubious spending by Commission members.

Milenkov did not state the exact reason for his resignation, which comes days after he said on Friday that he felt “no moral responsibility" for the affair and does not intend to resign.

He then claimed there was “no corruption” in his commission and said suspected that the allegations were a form of “political pressure” directed against him and his colleagues, instigated by the new government elected last May.

Unofficially, unnamed sources told Telma TV on Monday that the current head of the commission, Igor Tanturovski, was also preparing his resignation. BIRN was unable to reach Tanturovski for comment either.

Media last week published a recent revision report carried out by the State Revenue Office, which noted several cases of dubious spending.

The report alleged that some members of the body of seven members who were elected in April 2015 had been reporting unrealistically high travel costs.

It said also that during supposed travels abroad they were also registered as regularly attending their offices.

Another part of the report stated that commission members were reimbursed for renting temporary lodging, which was three times more expensive than the regular market prices.

The Prosecution Office said it has already “ex officio” formed a case to investigate these and other suspicious expenditures.

Milenkov, who was the first to resign, became known to the wider public last year for refusing to disclose the assets forms of the then outgoing government officials, including former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, former Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska, former Transport Minister Mile Janakieski and former secret police chief Saso Mijalkov.

The Anti-Corruption Commission was mentioned in various reports commissioned by Brussels as one of the country’s weak links when it comes to the fight against widespread corruption.

In 2015, an expert group commissioned by Brussels produced a list of urgent reform priorities drafted in the so-called Priebe report. Among other things, the report noted the inactivity of the Anti-Corruption Commission regarding complaints on misuse of state resources during election campaigns.

This body was criticized for being practically silent over the past few years. However, over the past few months, after the government changed last year, it started opening cases of alleged corruption against current officials.

This came after the new Social Democrat-led government announced it was willing to change the Anti-Corruption Law in order to be able to dismiss members of this body, as part of a wider EU-sought reform of the judiciary and other crime fighting bodies

[vicsinad]

We need a thread to post about good news coming out of Macedonia.

Scratch that. We don't want to embarrass ourselves.