Angered by perceived corruption and the government's alleged wiretapping of more than 20,000 politicians, judges and journalists, protesters have recently started throwing paint-filled balloons at government buildings and controversial state-funded statues in the capital.
The statues, which have become targets for the "I Protest" movement, were erected in recent years as part of Macedonia's Skopje 2014, a project aimed at renovating the capital's centre at a price of 80 million euros ($91m).
Critics of the government are angry that the actual cost reportedly tops 560 million euros ($636m), according to a 2015 investigation by the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network.
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