NMacedonia’s FM Osmani: Russia destabilizes the Western Balkans with visible steps
Bujar Osmani, the current Chairman of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, said today that the Russian Federation is a factor of destabilization in the Western Balkans region. Unlike the US and EU support for N.Macedonia and the entire region,...
Lavrov created drama in Skopje: Instead of giving answers, he argued with journalists
Written speech and disputes with journalists comprised Sergey Lavrov’s tactics in the press conference; Photo: Meta.mk
Russia turned today’s press conference of Sergei Lavrov into a propagandist theater play in the heart of Skopje, wishing to overshadow the last day and the conclusions of the...
OSCE Ministerial Council: Harsh condemnations of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the blockade of OSCE
Harsh condemnations of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine and Russia's blockade of the OSCE operations were voiced by the speakers at the beginning of the OSCE Ministerial Council today in Skopje. They sent a message that the Russian aggression against Ukraine violates the Final...
Macedonian PM will not meet Russian FM Sergei Lavrov
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski before the start of the OSCE Ministerial Council that is held in Skopje, said that he would not meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
He noted that each country in its own way sends a message about Russia's...
OSCE parallel conference: Russia is brutal towards Ukraine, the role of the civil society is extremely important
From the address of Pia Kauma, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Photo: Meta.mk
Democracy is declining in countries where there is no room for civil society activism. We are witnessing an alarming number of armed conflicts, in the last year we have been...
Blinken and Osmani: We remain united in our support for Ukraine
Photo Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and North Macedonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani welcomed the decision that paves the way for Malta to become the next chairman of the OSCE in 2024, which...
Metamorphosis and NOVA working together to raise students’ media literacy knowledge
Novakovski and Jashari signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. Photo: Meta.mk
The Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society and NOVA International School Skopje launched cooperation for joint raising of the media literacy of the students' media literacy and raising awareness about the role of digital media...
Macedonian journalists send a message on the protest: NO to censorship
Dozens of Macedonian journalists from several media outlets yesterday came out for a peaceful protest in front of the Civil Court in Skopje, expressing their revolt against the court verdict against the Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL), which is seen as a threat of censorship,...
Antidisinfo.net – New Tool for Fighting Disinformation
The Metamorphosis Foundation launched its new website – Anti-disinformation Network for the Balkans, Antifisinfo.net.
This website is a vital resource for the public, journalists and policy-makers for revealing foreign malign influence in the Western Balkan by exposing and mapping the flow of disinformation and propaganda originating...
Ulrik Haagerup: This is why constructive journalists are people’s “best friend”
Ulrik Haagerup, the founder and CEO of the Constructive Institute, experienced a profound realization during his tenure as Editor in Chief at a prominent Danish media outlet: he recognized that the majority of the news he was delivering to his audience was overwhelmingly negative...
Public debate on the Draft Strategy on Transparency: If corruption is a disease, transparency is the treatment
Photo: Government of the RNM
The second public debate on the Draft Strategy on Transparency 2023-2026, organized by the Policy and Good Governance Cabinet of the Government in cooperation with the Metamorphosis Foundation, took place in Veles.
The Vice President of the Government in charge of...
Petra Balažič: Youth should be able to recognize disinformation with malign intent
Meta.mk spoke with Petra Balažič from the Slovenian Center for European Perspective, which works in the Western Balkans region in dealing with disinformation. Answering our questions, she pointed out that spreading of disinformation is a matter of security and stability of the countries of...
Young journalists from Metamorphosis Foundation on a study visit in the USA
Photo: Metamorphosis Foundation
Two interns from the media outlets working under the auspices of Metamorphosis Foundation - Meta.mk and Portalb.mk - together with two representatives of the Foundation itself, were on a week-long study visit in Washington, USA. The study visit was organized by the...
Protest in Tetovo: 14 fatalities, zero prison time for 2021 fire in modular COVID-19 hospital
While September 8 is national holiday in Republic of North Macedonia, traditionally used for celebration of Independence Day, it's also an anniversary 2021 Tetovo hospital fire. At the second anniversary of the tragic event, the relatives of the victims staged a protest against impunity...
Aggeler’s scarf is a fashion accessory by designer McQueen and has nothing to do with Satanism
Photo: Screenshot from the video of the Macedonian Ministry of Internal Affairs
The scarf that Ambassador Aggeler is wearing is just a fashion accessory by the renowned world designer, Alexander McQueen, and is not sending out any hidden messages. This color-varied scarf has been seen...
Petrovska never stated that she declares war on Russia
Had Petrovska ever said such a thing, all of the media would have reported it, both the national and the international media. But such a thing cannot be found in the online space, neither in writing nor in audio form. Indeed, had Petrovska stated...
Visinska: We Tend to Believe in Conspiracy Theories and Russia Uses that to Spread Disinformation
Irena Visinska is a geopolitical analyst whose area of expertise is studies on hybrid threats to contemporary society and geopolitical trends in the Western Balkan region. Her attention is especially directed towards studying the disinformation flows and foreign propaganda, including the ramifications in the...
NATO Summit, Cluster Bombs, Prigozhin and Poland – Focus on Disinfo-narratives in July
In July, in the Macedonian language media one could have read a few types of Russian narratives related to the state of affairs in Ukraine. Most dominant were those connected to the NATO Summit in Vilnius, the US-approved cluster ammunition for Ukraine, the destiny...
Imported ideological conflicts are intensified by the flood of disinformation
“Culture wars” or ideological conflicts between the left and the right-wing became a dominant topic in US political discourse. Both sides are trying to present their truth and viewpoint as the only right option, while “they, the others” are the strike of evil wanting...
Geopolitical analysis: Foreign malign disinformation destabilizes the Western Balkans
Disinformation and fake news are not just a media problem, but a security problem. They destabilize the countries of Western Balkans, including North Macedonia, undermining the trust in democratic institutions and hindering the realization of their most important strategic objectives.
This is the general conclusion...
