by Naum Trajanovski
In September 2023, Skopje was named the 2028 European Capital of Culture alongside Bourges and České Budějovice. The news renewed a debate within North Macedonia about the capital city’s past, present, and potential futures. Common to all positions in the debate was that they referred, in one way or another, to the Skopje 2014 project. This article maps the latest critical events pertaining to this project and discusses its legacy after nearly fifteen years.
Nataliia Zalietok works in the fields of Women’s and Gender History, Comparative History, and Archival Science.
Anastasia Felcher is an academic specializing in historical research, cultural heritage studies, and archival work.
Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.
Irina Shcherbakova is a historian and human rights activist. She is a founding member of Memorial, where she is the director of the youth and education programms and a member of the International Memo...