This year, he writes in a Facebook post, we mark World Press Freedom Day as a country that has made a significant progress on the RSF ranking. Kovachevski thanks journalists and media workers for their dedicated work and professionalism. "Not so long ago, we'd witnessed that threatened press freedom is the first step towards autocratic rule and all the consequences from such rule. The SDSM-led government in the past five years has demonstrated an exceptional democratic capacity and respect toward the media and media workers fostering freedom of expression as key right and value in the society," says PM Kovachevski.