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428				color: #606060;
429			}
430			#wprmenu_menu.wprmenu_levels a.wprmenu_parent_item {
431				border-left:1px solid #0D0D0D;
432			}
433			#wprmenu_menu .wprmenu_icon_par {
434				color: #CFCFCF;
435			}
436			#wprmenu_menu .wprmenu_icon_par:hover {
437				color: #606060;
438			}
439			#wprmenu_menu.wprmenu_levels ul li ul {
440				border-top:1px solid #131212;
441			}
442			#wprmenu_bar .wprmenu_icon span {
443				background: #FFFFFF;
444			}
445			
446			#wprmenu_menu.left {
447				width:80%;
448				left: -80%;
449			    right: auto;
450			}
451			#wprmenu_menu.right {
452				width:80%;
453			    right: -80%;
454			    left: auto;
455			}
456
457
458			
459						/* show the bar and hide othere navigation elements */
460			@media only screen and (max-width: 1069px) {
461				html { padding-top: 42px!important; }
462				#wprmenu_bar { display: block!important; }
463				div#wpadminbar { position: fixed; }
464							}
465		</style>
466		<style id="custom-background-css">
467body.custom-background { background-image: url("https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/themes/i-max/images/default-bg.png"); background-position: left top; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; }
468</style>
469<style id="kirki-inline-styles">.nav-container li a{font-size:14px;font-weight:400;}.footer-bg, .site-footer .sidebar-container{background-color:#383838;}.site-footer .widget-area .widget .widget-title{color:#FFFFFF;}.site-footer .widget-area .widget, .site-footer .widget-area .widget li{color:#bbbbbb;}.site-footer .widget-area .widget a{color:#dddddd;}.site-footer{background-color:#272727;}
469.site-footer .site-info, .site-footer .site-info a{color:#777777;}.go-top{visibility:visible;}/* cyrillic-ext */
470@font-face {
471  font-family: 'Open Sans';
472  font-style: normal;
473  font-weight: 400;
474  font-stretch: normal;
475  font-display: swap;
476  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4taVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
477  unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F;
478}
479/* cyrillic */
480@font-face {
481  font-family: 'Open Sans';
482  font-style: normal;
483  font-weight: 400;
484  font-stretch: normal;
485  font-display: swap;
486  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4kaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
487  unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116;
488}
489/* greek-ext */
490@font-face {
491  font-family: 'Open Sans';
492  font-style: normal;
493  font-weight: 400;
494  font-stretch: normal;
495  font-display: swap;
496  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4saVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
497  unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF;
498}
499/* greek */
500@font-face {
501  font-family: 'Open Sans';
502  font-style: normal;
503  font-weight: 400;
504  font-stretch: normal;
505  font-display: swap;
506  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4jaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
507  unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF;
508}
509/* hebrew */
510@font-face {
511  font-family: 'Open Sans';
512  font-style: normal;
513  font-weight: 400;
514  font-stretch: normal;
515  font-display: swap;
516  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4iaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
517  unicode-range: U+0307-0308, U+0590-05FF, U+200C-2010, U+20AA, U+25CC, U+FB1D-FB4F;
518}
519/* math */
520@font-face {
521  font-family: 'Open Sans';
522  font-style: normal;
523  font-weight: 400;
524  font-stretch: normal;
525  font-display: swap;
526  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B5caVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
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528}
529/* symbols */
530@font-face {
531  font-family: 'Open Sans';
532  font-style: normal;
533  font-weight: 400;
534  font-stretch: normal;
535  font-display: swap;
536  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B5OaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
537  unicode-range: U+0001-000C, U+000E-001F, U+007F-009F, U+20DD-20E0, U+20E2-20E4, U+2150-218F, U+2190, U+2192, U+2194-2199, U+21AF, U+21E6-21F0, U+21F3, U+2218-2219, U+2299, U+22C4-22C6, U+2300-243F, U+2440-244A, U+2460-24FF, U+25A0-27BF, U+2800-28FF, U+2921-2922, U+2981, U+29BF, U+29EB, U+2B00-2BFF, U+4DC0-4DFF, U+FFF9-FFFB, U+10140-1018E, U+10190-1019C, U+101A0, U+101D0-101FD, U+102E0-102FB, U+10E60-10E7E, U+1D2C0-1D2D3, U+1D2E0-1D37F, U+1F000-1F0FF, U+1F100-1F1AD, U+1F1E6-1F1FF, U+1F30D-1F30F, U+1F315, U+1F31C, U+1F31E, U+1F320-1F32C, U+1F336, U+1F378, U+1F37D, U+1F382, U+1F393-1F39F, U+1F3A7-1F3A8, U+1F3AC-1F3AF, U+1F3C2, U+1F3C4-1F3C6, U+1F3CA-1F3CE, U+1F3D4-1F3E0, U+1F3ED, U+1F3F1-1F3F3, U+1F3F5-1F3F7, U+1F408, U+1F415, U+1F41F, U+1F426, U+1F43F, U+1F441-1F442, U+1F444, U+1F446-1F449, U+1F44C-1F44E, U+1F453, U+1F46A, U+1F47D, U+1F4A3, U+1F4B0, U+1F4B3, U+1F4B9, U+1F4BB, U+1F4BF, U+1F4C8-1F4CB, U+1F4D6, U+1F4DA, U+1F4DF, U+1F4E3-1F4E6, U+1F4EA-1F4ED, U+1F4F7, U+1F4F9-1F4FB, U+1F4FD-1F4FE, U+1F503, U+1F507-1F50B, U+1F50D, U+1F512-1F513, U+1F53E-1F54A, U+1F54F-1F5FA, U+1F610, U+1F650-1F67F, U+1F687, U+1F68D, U+1F691, U+1F694, U+1F698, U+1F6AD, U+1F6B2, U+1F6B9-1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6C6-1F6CF, U+1F6D3-1F6D7, U+1F6E0-1F6EA, U+1F6F0-1F6F3, U+1F6F7-1F6FC, U+1F700-1F7FF, U+1F800-1F80B, U+1F810-1F847, U+1F850-1F859, U+1F860-1F887, U+1F890-1F8AD, U+1F8B0-1F8BB, U+1F8C0-1F8C1, U+1F900-1F90B, U+1F93B, U+1F946, U+1F984, U+1F996, U+1F9E9, U+1FA00-1FA6F, U+1FA70-1FA7C, U+1FA80-1FA89, U+1FA8F-1FAC6, U+1FACE-1FADC, U+1FADF-1FAE9, U+1FAF0-1FAF8, U+1FB00-1FBFF;
538}
539/* vietnamese */
540@font-face {
541  font-family: 'Open Sans';
542  font-style: normal;
543  font-weight: 400;
544  font-stretch: normal;
545  font-display: swap;
546  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4vaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
547  unicode-range: U+0102-0103, U+0110-0111, U+0128-0129, U+0168-0169, U+01A0-01A1, U+01AF-01B0, U+0300-0301, U+0303-0304, U+0308-0309, U+0323, U+0329, U+1EA0-1EF9, U+20AB;
548}
549/* latin-ext */
550@font-face {
551  font-family: 'Open Sans';
552  font-style: normal;
553  font-weight: 400;
554  font-stretch: normal;
555  font-display: swap;
556  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4uaVQUwaEQXjN_mQ.woff) format('woff');
557  unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1D
557BF, U+1E00-1E9F, U+1EF2-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20C0, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF;
558}
559/* latin */
560@font-face {
561  font-family: 'Open Sans';
562  font-style: normal;
563  font-weight: 400;
564  font-stretch: normal;
565  font-display: swap;
566  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/open-sans/memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQUwaEQXjM.woff) format('woff');
567  unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
568}/* cyrillic-ext */
569@font-face {
570  font-family: 'Roboto';
571  font-style: normal;
572  font-weight: 400;
573  font-stretch: normal;
574  font-display: swap;
575  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmZiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
576  unicode-range: U+0460-052F, U+1C80-1C8A, U+20B4, U+2DE0-2DFF, U+A640-A69F, U+FE2E-FE2F;
577}
578/* cyrillic */
579@font-face {
580  font-family: 'Roboto';
581  font-style: normal;
582  font-weight: 400;
583  font-stretch: normal;
584  font-display: swap;
585  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmQiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
586  unicode-range: U+0301, U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116;
587}
588/* greek-ext */
589@font-face {
590  font-family: 'Roboto';
591  font-style: normal;
592  font-weight: 400;
593  font-stretch: normal;
594  font-display: swap;
595  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmYiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
596  unicode-range: U+1F00-1FFF;
597}
598/* greek */
599@font-face {
600  font-family: 'Roboto';
601  font-style: normal;
602  font-weight: 400;
603  font-stretch: normal;
604  font-display: swap;
605  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmXiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
606  unicode-range: U+0370-0377, U+037A-037F, U+0384-038A, U+038C, U+038E-03A1, U+03A3-03FF;
607}
608/* math */
609@font-face {
610  font-family: 'Roboto';
611  font-style: normal;
612  font-weight: 400;
613  font-stretch: normal;
614  font-display: swap;
615  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVnoiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
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617}
618/* symbols */
619@font-face {
620  font-family: 'Roboto';
621  font-style: normal;
622  font-weight: 400;
623  font-stretch: normal;
624  font-display: swap;
625  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVn6iAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
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627}
628/* vietnamese */
629@font-face {
630  font-family: 'Roboto';
631  font-style: normal;
632  font-weight: 400;
633  font-stretch: normal;
634  font-display: swap;
635  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmbiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
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637}
638/* latin-ext */
639@font-face {
640  font-family: 'Roboto';
641  font-style: normal;
642  font-weight: 400;
643  font-stretch: normal;
644  font-display: swap;
645  src: url(https://www.independent.mk/wp-content/fonts/roboto/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmaiAz0klQm_20O0g.woff) format('woff');
646  unicode-range: U+0100-02BA, U+02BD-02C5, U+02C7-02CC, U+02CE-02D7, U+02DD-02FF, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+1D00-1D
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647}
648/* latin */
649@font-face {
650  font-family: 'Roboto';
651  font-style: normal;
652  font-weight: 400;
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