The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) presented, in a ceremony held on February 10, 2015, at the Journalists’ Club in Skopje, the winners of journalistic awards for lifetime achievement “Krste Misirkov” and the “Jashar Erebara” award for annual achievement in the area of investigative report.

Last Tuesday, December 23, 2014, the citizens gathered in the Platform for Civic Politics AJDE sat in 123 chairs that they put between the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia and the monument to ASNOM across the street and sent a message to the MPs and the government that the citizens are the source of sovereignty and that democracy is more than just voting in elections.

The countries of Western Balkans are all ranked in the group of “partially free” countries in the latest Freedom of the Press 2014 report, published by Freedom House. The best ranked, with a score of 10 out of possible 100 (the higher the score, the...