Macedonian Nationalist Leader Gruevski Indicted

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Is there hope for my poor little homeland?

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Are the Albanians going to take over? Will Albanian be adopted as an official second language?

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A special prosecutor in Macedonia has charged more than 90 people, including former senior officials, in connection with a 2-year-old wiretap scandal that brought down the previous government.

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva told reporters at a news conference in Skopje on June 29 that her office had filed charges against 94 people and seven legal entities in 17 cases.

The small Balkan nation plunged into political turmoil in 2015, when opposition parties accused former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counterintelligence chief of masterminding the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.

Janeva did not disclose the names of any of those charged, but said she was considering asking authorities to detain 18 people including a party leader.

Among those 18, according to Macedonian media, are Gruevski and former Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska.

Gruevski, leader of the main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, dismissed the prosecutor’s allegations and accused the ruling Social Democrats of trying to destroy his party and Macedonia.

“This is a political, not a legal process,” Gruevski said at a news conference on June 29. “If they think the VMRO-DPMNE will take this lightly, they are deeply mistaken,” he warned.