Nikola Gruevski, the head of the Macedonian ruling party (VMRO-DPMNE ... of closed societies -- from fascist dictatorships to mafia states -- are on the rise. How could this happen?

The murder of five men near Skopje earlier this month was not a mafia killing carried out in retaliation for police actions against them, a senior Macedonian police official has said. Ljupco ...

Officials said the gang is based in Macedonia and quickly took over the heroin trade in Frankfurt and Vienna by violently forcing out rival gangs. The ring has been dubbed the Frankfurt Mafia and ...

The Macedonian parliament is debating whether to hold a referendum on the peace deal designed to end fighting between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and the Macedonian security forces. With elections due ...

As the fighting around the Macedonian city of Tetovo continues, Macedonian security forces in the area have been reinforced in an attempt to flush out the ethnic Albanian guerrillas from their ...

a researcher at the Paris Institute of Criminology and author of The Albanian Mafia. The guerrillas' stated aim is to protect the ethnic Albanian minority in Macedonia, which they claim is ...

Close shave: Italian police have discovered a group of Macedonian gangsters were taking a keen interest in the movements of Jose Mourinho Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES After being threatened by ...