The U.S. State Department has released its "Country Reports On Human Rights Practices" for 2012, highlighting crackdowns on civil society, struggles for democratic change, and threats to freedom of expression.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is set to release reports on the progress of some Balkan states toward EU membership talks.
Low turnout and minor irregularities have been reported in Macedonia, where voters are participating in the second round of municipal elections, including for the mayoral post in the capital, Skopje.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have expressed concern about local elections in Macedonia on March 24.
Macedonia’s ruling Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity has declared victory in the country’s local elections.
Voters in Macedonia have begun casting their ballots in local elections. Opposition parties are taking part in the poll to elect mayors and municipal councilors on March 24 after earlier threatening a boycott. About 1.7 million people are eligible to vote in the Balkan nation. (RFE/RL)
Voters in Macedonia have been casting ballots in local elections amid continuing tensions between ethnic Macedonians and minority ethnic Albanians.
On March 11, 1943, almost the entire Jewish community of Macedonia was deported to the Treblinka Nazi death camp in Poland. The deportation was arranged and conducted by occupying Bulgarian troops and police, acting under the authority of their Nazi German allies. The event is a controversial chapter in history for Bulgarians, many of whom take pride in the country's refusal to deport its own Jews to concentration camps.
Police say at least 22 people, including 13 police officers, have been injured in two days of protests in Macedonia's capital, Skopje.
Several policemen were injured, several cars completely destroyed, and a few people were arrested in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, on March 2 during protests by ethnic Albanians. The protest was a response to attacks on ethnic Albanians after a demonstration one day earlier by Macedonian youths against Talat Xhaferi's appointment as defense minister. (Video by RFE/RL Balkan Services Macedonian Unit)
The opposition in Macedonia has reversed a previous decision to boycott this month's local elections, following talks with the ruling party and European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
A muscle-bound outsider and a former expatriate maker of B-movies are set to duke it out in a mayor's race in southwestern Macedonia that appears to draw more on Hollywood than the city's 2,000-year history for inspiration.
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