women and the LGBTQ community cast a shadow over North Macedonia’s recent general and presidential election campaigns, new BIRN research finds. As the country’s strongest ethnic Albanian party ...

An inter-ethnic council composed of two representatives of each minority was created by the parliament. Macedonia was making the difficult transition from communism to democracy and a free market ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Ethnic Albanian rebels battling the Macedonian government have signed a commitment to lay down their arms, pending a grant of amnesty from the government. A NATO spokesman ...

Police in North Macedonia have arrested 10 people following raucous celebrations — allegedly including gunfire — by members of the country's ethnic Albanian minority to mark an Albanian ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia's prime minister says his government will meet key ethnic Albanian demands in order to end an insurgency that has pushed the country towards all-out war. Ljubco ...

Macedonia's Roma community also suffered at the hands of the police during 2000. On April 21, a married couple of "Egyptian" ethnicity (Macedonia's so-called Egyptians consider themselves distinct ...

Extreme nationalists have also long railed against concessions to North Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority following an armed insurrection in 2001, and at some Bulgarians’ claims that ...

AP More than three months after the Macedonian government and ethnic Albanian fighters inked an agreement that brought peace to Macedonia, the country is once again teetering on the edge of ...

RFE/RL's North Macedonia Service investigates and exposes corruption and crime while also promoting democratic values and good ethnic relations. It is one of the few independent media outlets ...