Interview

Ezgjan Alioski: Leeds made my dream to play in England come true
Following the excellent matches in Swiss Lugano after gaining a more engaging role on the pitch, one of our best football players, Ezgjan Alioski, changed the club environment this summer and signed for Leeds United. Since the very beginning...

Portuguese writer Bruno Vieira Amaral: When you have a chance, give your best shot!
Portuguese writer Bruno V. Amaral came to Macedonia for the first time for the promotion of his novel The Former Things. The novel was published by the Skopje-based publishing house Ili Ili, translated by Natasha Sardzovska and, as...

Macedonians and Italians share a genuine passion for football
Italian Alessio Zuccarini says Macedonia has a lot to offer. Beautiful nature, historical landmarks, unique traditional food. He has been living and working here since 2004. He says he appreciates the readiness of the Macedonian people to...

In Macedonia, I felt safe for the first time
Zabdiel Mejía is a Salvadorian who lives in Macedonia, Ohrid since 2014. He decided to come and live in Macedonia because of a scholarship he received from our country. Zabdiel revealed ‘Republika’ that the was most worried...

Manu Torres: The road is our home
Manu Torres and Ivana Colakovska are a Spanish and Macedonian couple that has been riding around the world on Yamaha XT660Z Ténéré. They met in Mykonos. Since then, they are together, living their dream to travel around the world...

Professor Levin: U.S. Ambassadors and the CIA changed governments in the Balkans
The U.S. has a long history of attempts to influence the election processes and the election results in other countries, according to a research by Professor Dov Levin, Post Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie-Mellon...

Macedonian people are friendly, make me feel at home
Fernando Reátegui is a young teacher from Peru who lives and works in Ohrid. Reátegui has lived and worked in several European countries, but the reason he came to Macedonia, as he told “Republika” is the opportunity to fulfill...

My life is in Macedonia
Marc Morell is French, who has been living in Macedonia for three years, although, as he told “Republika”, he came to the country for the first time in 1970. Mark has lived in several countries worldwide. He is a hydrologist...

In Macedonia I am able to be myself and make my own friends
Paula Cooper – Trajkovski is a girl who left her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, and in the name of love decided to live here. She first visited Macedonia in 2010, and moved here in 2012. She has a two-year son and sells jewelry...