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Interview: Aneta Jovevska, senior scientific associate at the Institute for sociological and political-legal research
 Even the most democratic states cannot avoid discrimination of individuals or special groups!Would you like first of all to explain the terms special laws and special groups?
We are talking about the principles of equality and nondiscrimination that are undeniably basic categories of contemporary democracy. Even though the theory offers answers to the dilemmas that these issues open, though, in reality there are numerous unsaid things and problems in their realization. However, we are witnesses every day that even the most democratic countries aren’t immune to problems connected to discrimination of certain individuals or special groups. |  |
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Zvegor Surva, Black faces, bright hearts
ReportageOn 14 January in Zvegor, everybody had dark, smiling and joyful faces. Dark on your face symbolizes happiness, it chases the evil spirits, it also means health and wealth in the upcoming year. Even the drivers of the big trucks, the tourists with skis on top of their cars and all the others who had to go through Zvegor in order to reach Bulgaria or go back in Macedonia were stopped, their faces were made dark, and they had to pay “tax” to the Zvegor “surovarskars”. Some of the village “beauties” (which were, in fact, men, dresses as women) have even tried to enter the truck cabins and pass the wish for a happy new summer to the truck drivers with a kiss! | |
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