If we can go back in time, we can see that Macedonia declared independence following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The country was wracked by unrest in the early 2000s following an armed insurrection by ethnic Albanians, who make up about a quarter of the population.

A peace agreement, brokered by NATO, ended with the government agreeing to provide more rights to the minority and ethnic Albanians saying they will abandon their goal of a separate state. But tensions have lingered since then.

And for it's situation now, the political tension has been building in Macedonia for the past two years, and the country has been under a caretaker government since inconclusive early December elections. The hostility boiled over disagreements about the election of a new parliament speaker, leaving more than 100 people injured, including police, protesters and lawmakers and many more facts that made the situation there very hard.