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Photo: Screenshot of the FB post The photograph in the post we are fact-checking was used by Russian media in 2007 in the context of reporting on the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece at the time. Parts of the map posted belong to Greece and are marked as Western Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia, and Central Macedonia and they present, in...

Truthmeter.mk is reviewing a Facebook post, which says that an amazing video from Mount Athos shows the appearance of the Mother of God. According to the description in the text, the video was shot on Mount Athos and shows the appearance of the Most Holy Mother of God.   Meta.mk republishes this fact-checking article in its entirety below: Around the figure that people...

The Greek literary magazine Hartis (Χάρτης, meaning "map") published a portrait of the Macedonian linguist, writer, translator, poet and member of Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Blaže Koneski (1921-1993). The article, titled "Synaxaria" (Συναξάρια) was published in the June 2020 issue of the magazine and presents part of his life work. The term synaxarion used in the title is...

Disinformation launched June 3 by several right-wing media in North Macedonia, falsely claiming that Greece prohibits citizens of certain municipalities to enter the country, had been promptly debunked by CriThink, but it continues to serve as part of the populist arsenal for inciting inter-ethnic tensions and hate speech promoting religious intolerance. These claims were originally published on by the website...

As part of its program for fighting disinformation and false news, which cross the borders quickly in the Balkans and very soon can be seen in the media of another state and sometimes in another language, Meta.mk has been reporting regularly about current affairs at similar services for checking facts and the fight against disinformation in the region i.e....

As part of its program for fighting disinformation and false news, which easily traverse Balkans borders and quickly find their way to media in other states and language, Meta.mk regularly informs about current affairs at similar services for checking facts and the regional fight against disinformation i.e. Croatia in the north and reaching Greece in the south. The Montenegrin...

Regarding the trade marks, with the name "Macedonia" and other variants that have come out of it, we have the advantage by being the only country in the world that has the word "Macedonia" in its name, but still regarding trade marks and titles, those that will have to make the agreements are the economic chambers and the businessmen....

Bulgaria wants to watch over the North Macedonia's skies on a rotation with Greece stated the Bulgarian President Rumen Radev today, informs the Bulgarian news page "mediapool.bg“. he said that he has had meetings with the prime ministers of both countries, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Zoran Zaev at the NATO summit in London during which they spoke about defining the parameters...

The celebrity actress Sarah Jessica Parker, best known for the role as Carry in the Sex and the City series, has published on her Instagram profile kind words about Honeyland documentary and the team behind it. Honeyland is an astonishing, visually breathtaking, intimate yet epic story of beekeeper Hatidze Muratova. A woman I shall never forget! There is a...

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Ohrid. At the airport, he was greeted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov and then the US Secretary went to meet President Stevo Pendarovski. Later he will meet with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Pompeo arrived this afternoon from Montenegro and this evening he will be visiting Greece.

The negotiations between Macedonia and Greece regarding the building of the interconnective gas pipeline are expected to start very soon. During its yesterday's session, the Government adopted the proposal for starting a procedure for leading negotiations for concluding an agreement between both countries and authorized the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi, as the Head of the delegation of our...

U julu 2019., makedonski društveni mediji su bili preplavljeni linkovima na članke od pre godinu dana u kojima se tvrdi da su premijeri Severne Makedonije i Grčke, Zoran Zaev i Aleksis Cipras svaki primili milijarde evra mita da bi potpisali Prespanski dogovor. Prespanski dogovor je postignut u junu 2018. godine, i okončao je 27-ogodišnji spor između dva suseda. Makedonija je...

Macedonia and Kosovo have signed an agreement for the introduction of joint border controls concerning the railway traffic since 2011, but until today a joint building of the Customs services, police, and inspection services haven't been built. As was Meta Agency informed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, this building was supposed to be built by the Kosovar...

Greek website "Valkaniko Periscopo" which published various types of news from the Balkans region including the USA, the Near East, Russia, Armenia and even from Libia, two days after the first Pride Parade in Skopje occurred, has published a news that refers to a Macedonian website that states even 200.000 people in Macedonia are homosexuals. The number stated by this...

The former Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos, who was a fervent opponent of reaching an agreement between Greece and North Macedonia in order to solve the name dispute, in many of his public appearances he acted bitterly against North Macedonia and its new name that contains the word "Macedonia". In one of his efforts to back up his claims, he...

The locals from the Gevgelija area villages of Miravci, Smokvica, and Prdejci demand to be freed from paying pay toll that will be put into use in the forthcoming days. The citizens that are traveling every day by using the highway to Gevgelija and back think that the pay toll in the amount of 100 denars in one direction...

Srpski onlajn-medij “Argumenti”, pozivajući se na onlajn-izdanje grčkih novina “Katimerini”, pišući o prvom test-letu grčkog vojnog aviona-lovca na makedonskom nebu, pomešao je stvari. “Argumenti” je ovaj let proglasio početkom predviđenih vazdušnih patrola grčkog vojnog vazduhoplovstva nad Makedonijom, kao deo zaštite makedonskog neba u okviru NATO procedura. Počinjući od naslova vesti, koja u prevodu glasi “Grčki lovci počeli da kontrolišu makedonsko...

In most of the news published in Bulgarian media yesterday and today about yesterday's test flights conducted by Greek military planes over Macedonia, for the purpose to analyze the communications and radar coverage, almost all of them have reported correctly the facts both in the titles and content. All stressed that these are preparations for the protection of the...

There were 3 peace problems in the Balkans, and today after the name resolution of Macedonia there are only two left: normalization of the relations between Kosovo and Serbia and fixing the dysfunctional governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina said Daniel Serwer of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was one of the speakers at yesterday's debate titled...

At the press conference in Skopje, besides building bridges and the benefits of the two countries becoming closer, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke about the issue with fake news in regards to the Prespa Agreement. According to Tsipras, "in the past months of implementing the agreement, the issue of fake news has become noticeable. " “In the past months, while...