Russian embassy in Skopje threatens to ‘record’ dissenters from Kremlin official positions, labeled ‘rusophobes’
Russian embassy in Skopje has been the only one in the Balkans region to translate and transmit the "warning" by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA) about increased level of "rusophobia" which stresses that "all such incidents are meticulously recorded."
Even...
U.S. Mission to NATO takes initiative to detect Russian disinformation
The U.S. Mission to NATO has launched an initiative called “We choose facts”, which aims to disarm the disinformation and propaganda that Russia uses in relation to the disputes with Ukraine, Portalb.mk writes.
The U.S. Mission to NATO considers disinformation to be one of the...
The Video of Russian Soldiers Parachuting Down On Kharkiv Is At Least 8 Years Old
The video is not new and does not show Russian paratroopers descending over Kharkiv. The video can be found on YouTube, published in 2018, as a recording of a military exercise in Vostok, and it can also be found on Facebook, shared on the...
The “Cheerful” Russian Soldier Filmed Himself in 2015, Not in 2022
The video of this paratrooper, which has over 20 million views on the social network “TikTok”, was not recorded this year, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who specializes in exposing disinformation, writes that this video is old. The...
Aleksandar Nikoloski, vice president of VMRO-DPMNE: USA is North Macedonia’s greatest friend
In "Click Plus" on TV 21, VMRO-DPMNE's vice president Aleksandar Nikolovski at the beginning of February stated his opinion about the Ukrainian conflict. According to him, when Macedonia has no clue how to act foreign policy-wise, then it should look up to the USA...
BBC fact-checks Vladimir Putins’s speech
BBC's "Reality Check" analyzed the long nightly address of the Russian Federation's president Vladimir Putin, after he ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.
We republish BBC's fact-check in its entirety below:
In a long, late-night televised address...
Protesters in front of Russian embassy in Skopje shout ‘Putin is a fascist’ demanding end to war against Ukraine
Dozens of citizens of North Macedonia and Ukrainians residing in Skopje protested against Russian invasion on Ukraine through a march from the main square of the capital of North Macedonia to the Russian embassy on February 25. They sung Ukrainian songs and shouted "Putin...
Kuleba: Russia uses disinformation and cyberattacks to destabilize Ukraine
In front of more than two hundred journalists from around the world, Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs, Dmytro Kuleba held a press conference in order, as he said, to answer three big questions: How the escalation with Russia did happen, what's going on now,...
US ambassador to Skopje: The United States respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine
The United States, along with allies and partners, will help Ukraine defend itself against further Russian aggression, said US Ambassador to Skopje Kate Burns in a commentary on the situation with Russia and Ukraine, published on the US Embassy website in North Macedonia
“The world...
Why does Putin want escalation with the West?
The former head of the Bulgarian state intelligence agency Dimo Gjaurov, in an interview with TV Nova, commented that one of the goals of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the escalation of the conflict with Ukraine is to force Europe and the United States...
Russia Today’s license in Germany revoked, Kremlin retaliates by shutting down Deutsche Welle’s Russian Service
Russian authorities have banned the broadcasting of programs by the German media corporation Deutsche Welle in the country, they closed their offices while the journalists' accreditations for working in Russia were canceled. The decision arrived only two days after Germany canceled the license for...
Russian authorities add oppositionist Navalny to the “Terrorists list”
The leading Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who has been jailed for a year, has been proclaimed a “terrorist” by the Russian state. The loudest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule has been included in the list of “terrorists and extremists” by Russia’s federal...
Lavrov wonders how Macedonia’s NATO membership has strengthened Alliance’s security
After Bulgaria and Romania, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday commented on Macedonia’s membership in NATO. Instead of “North Macedonia”, in the answers to the questions of the program “Weekly Time” on the state Russian television “First Channel”, he named the country as “Macedonia”.
Asked...
Orban to seek Russian gas in Moscow, Hungarian opposition demands no-escalation in Ukraine
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has scheduled an official visit to Moscow for 1 February, where he plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Radio Free Europe in Macedonian reports. The reason for the visit to Russia is the request of Hungary for...
Belgium introduces new passport design featuring domestic comics characters
On January 27, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès launched the new Belgian passport. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new passport is more secure thanks to new security and personalization techniques, while the new original design...
Defense minister: North Macedonia supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity
Slavjanka Petrovska, the minister of defense of North Macedonia said for NMacedonian TV 24 that the state institutions are following-up on the situation in Ukraine, in the light of the repositioning of the Russian armed forces on the border with Ukraine.
"I have to highlight...
Following Eastern Europe, Russia is requesting withdrawal of NATO forces from Bulgaria and Romania
Russia’s request for the withdrawal of NATO forces (foreign troops, weapons and equipment) is not only for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe but for all countries that were not members of NATO in the period before 1997. The security guarantees that Russia...
Global Voices: Russian censors block website of legal aid non-profit OVD-Info
OVD-Info, a prominent Russian legal aid and human rights organisation, announced on December 25 that its website had been blocked by Roskomnadzor, Russia's internet and media regulator, writes “Global Voices”. Meta.mk republishes the original article, under the cooperation agreement with “Global Voices”.
Though the state registry revealed...
Global Voices: Russia blocks access to Tor browser website
Russian authorities blocked access to the Tor browser website, torproject.org, on Wednesday, 8 December, according to reports from Tor developers and users. The official block follows earlier reports of Russian internet service providers blocking access to the service, with some Russian users unable to access the Tor...
Authorities dissolve PEN Belarus
On 9 August, the Supreme Court of Belarus ruled to close down the Belarusian PEN Centre. IFEX, the global network for defending and promoting freedom of expression, informed about the reaction of the PEN International, a worldwide association of writers with member organizations in...
