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Macedonia plunged back into political crisis
Valentina Dimitrievska in Skopje
Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov has refused for the second time to sign the law that makes Albanian the second official language in the country, even though legal experts say he is obliged to do so.
Ivanov’s action has made the political situation in Macedonia more fragile again, and security has
US expands Russian sanctions as tensions mount
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The Department of the US Treasury's Office
of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) on March 15, adding 14 Russian private individuals and the Russia- based Agency of Internet Research to the sanctions list.
been tightened following threats against ruling party MPs.
The country had started to recover from a major political crisis since the new Social Democratic government came to power in mid-2017 and
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The move comes amid mounting tensions between the UK and its allies and Russia after the contro- versial poisoning of an ex-Russian spy on British soil on March 4. UK Prime Minister Theresa May 14 expelled 23 Russian diplomats on March 15 and
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