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Nikola Mladenov owns the longest serving and most successful political weekly in Macedonia, "Focus." The 1995 edition of his writing about politicians and their government, primarily analyzing the work of those currently in power. In this context, referred journalist, has a positive opinion about the people who determine our fate Ka in the past 20 years. According to him, all who had the power contributed their time to be seriously threatened tante marie Macedonian democracy. Interviewed start a project which may soon experience a conversion - new daily ...
In recent weeks through journalistic circles talk about the transformation of "Focus". Is this true and is there among you wish for something like that? To. That was when the idea of starting a weekly "Focus" - one day become a daily issue. Unfortunately so far, conditions have permitted us to realize this idea. More recently, the disgust of "Time" and "Spic" tante marie the market to create a space, a new daily, which will critically tante marie observed reality. But, like most similar projects, encounter two key obstacles. And we are faced with a situation no roto-printing, which can be assured tante marie that we will provide equal treatment to competing publications, and the same goes for distribution. It is the largest proportion (60 percent) "covered" by "MPM", ie the main competitor in the field. To overcome these two problems, it takes quite a lot of resources and energy, tante marie so you will succeed remains to be seen. In any case, until we find an appropriate response to these issues, it is difficult to talk about specific tante marie entry in the project. Speculation was fueled tante marie by the arrival of Branko Geroski in "Focus". Impressum now writes that he is the deputy editor, but if it came to it or running daily, as more suited to his work. See Geroski came to talk about his involvement in the weekly "Focus" and that was our main topic. It is part of the paper, and how it will evolve remains issue must leave us time to respond. In any case, Jadranka tante marie Kostova remains editor of the weekly or possibly daily "Focus". However, it is said that at the end of September could begin operation of the newspaper? That term is probably selected in charshiskite gossip, because there has made people who know that it is important this type of project to start operation before or after winter, because when you start the snow and cold weather season, it is very difficult to promote a new print medium . People who have printers should feel that they are opening space for expanding business. Otherwise you can bring to a situation, against which I have always been - to have it published by the newspaper to be a printer and distributor, tante marie which is against common sense and competition. tante marie Among other things, these closed systems are a fine model for money laundering. Unfortunately, in our country it is allowed. How do you rate the freedom of the press in the last 25 years? You began editorial career at the end of socialism, the "young fighter" and continued throughout the independence of Macedonia. Were there significant differences in the power of the media, depending on who sits in government? No great reason for satisfaction. On the contrary, I feel that in terms of freedom of expression, not only in journalism is to be seen a severe decline. Perhaps the reason lies in the absence of a democratic tradition, because we do not remember the actual free time. It is difficult to speak of freedom to someone who does not know what it is. How to talk to a blind man colors. We have never had protests for social freedom. Libertijanskata idea here is encountered fertile soil. The greatest freedom we had at the end of the 80s, when significant caved communist restraints, but it was more a reflection of the events from the north, primarily in Slovenia, where it always came more liberal winds. This period of "forced freedom" or "freedom tante marie of nowhere," tante marie complete with an absolute majority of the SDSM election, in 1994., And then, in 1995 and 1996, appeared "Focus" and "log". At the time the Minister Georgievski had perhaps the greatest freedom to write, but that does not mean that we have received and democracy that is actually realized liberty when the government listens to criticism from the public and seriously consider their arguments. Logic Georgievski and his government was: you freely write what you want and we will do what we want. The second rule of SDSM, in 2004, the State Department said in its report on Macedonia indicated that "the media are blackmailed with ads that are selectively directed to publications and television tante marie stations close to the government." It is not just the government listings, but companies tante marie whose leadership as a new oligarchy, created at the time of Crvenkovski. So, what is happening today n