Sunchica Stojanovska Zoksimovska is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service based in Skopje.
Macedonian actress Vesna Petrusevska became the public face of the crisis during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when she posted a photo on social media of her mastectomy scar alongside glamorous images from her past.
Longtime university professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is preparing for the transition from teaching politics to practicing it following her landslide victory to unseat incumbent North Macedonia President Stevo Pendarovski.
Five years after the country was renamed, hundreds of thousands of citizens still don't have a North Macedonia passport, making international travel virtually impossible.
