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Photo: Video screenshot The video in which the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, allegedly, calls for a military coup and speaks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a high-quality fake video, or so-called “deepfake”, created with the help of artificial intelligence, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   A...

The alleged cynical statement about Ambassador Victoria Nuland shared in this Facebook post is fabricated. No official, established, relevant and credible medium has transmitted such a statement from the so-called Niger “revolutionary government” – that they did not want US money and even that they allegedly recommended the funds to be used for a “weight-loss program for Victoria Nuland”....

"Gjorge Ivanov, with the decision not to hand over the mandate to form a government, which he is bound to by the Constitution, has led a coup. He is leading the country into a deeper crisis with unforeseeable consequences for the citizens", said the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, after President Gjorge Ivanov decided not to give him the...

At a closed session, the Government decided to act on the requests made by Turkey which were delivered after the failed attempted coup, stated Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs to radio “Slobodna Evropa”. Poposki said that he could not comment on the decisions made at the closed Government session, therefore he could not disclose specific details on Turkeys...

Macedonian citizens who are currently in Turkey are safe, and there have been no reports of casualties or deaths of Macedonian nationals, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki has been in contact via telephone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who has assured him that the Turkish authorities are working on restoring peace...

The Republic of Macedonia supports the democratically elected government of the Republic of Turkey, and we are currently holding a meeting which assesses the security issues of this situation, reported President Gjorgi Ivanov’s Cabinet. "After receiving information about the attempted military coup in Turkey, the Army of the Republic of Macedonia undertook a series of measures and activities for the...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated they are closely following the situation in Turkey and are in constant contact with the Macedonian Embassy in Ankara and the General Consulate in Istanbul. The MFA have urged all Macedonian nationals currently in Turkey to remain in safe locations, not to leave their hotels or accommodation and to avoid gatherings in public...

The government has created the idea conditions for executing a coup d'etat within the Interior Ministry, said Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski at a news conference. He said he was denied by the Government to head the ministry "in these extremely difficult times for the country" and to be held accountable for the "consequences of this deliberately created chaos in the...

Court in Strumica gave SDSM leader Zoran Zaev to report to a competent judge until noon, and if he does not, then a notification to the Basic Court Skopje 1 will be sent, which would then have to determine a new measure, reports "Plusinfo". - Defendant Zaev should report until 9:30 am, but the judge in the previous procedure makes...

Council for reviewing the indictment of the criminal court in Skopje fully approved the charges for case "Puch" and also rejected the objections of the defense of the accused, including the opposition leader Zoran Zaev, as unfounded, announced today Basic Court Skopje 1. "The Council finds that cases which are the subject of the indictment are crimes envisaged in the...

Council of Criminal Court has no legally defined deadline for the review of the indictment in the case "Puch" when to enter plea and decide whether to put it in further procedure and schedule a trial or will return it to the prosecution, as requested by the defense. Although some media on 1st of June, after the session of the...

"The decision to submit an indictment in the case "Puch", as in all other cases, has been adopted and is based only on the evidence collected during the investigative procedure, and the Public Prosecution perceives the statement of SDSM as pressure on the court" reads the written response of the Public Prosecution to the claims of the opposition that...

Basic Public Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption today submitted an indictment against Zoran Zaev, the opposition leader, who is charged with violence against representatives of the highest state authorities, to the Basic Court Skopje 1. Prosecutors also filed an indictment against four other suspects in the case. The first accused, former intelligence officer Zoran Verusevski, is charged with unauthorized wiretapping...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hoyt Yee reiterated the appeal to the Macedonian authorities to deal with the wiretapping case, as well as the appeal to the opposition to return to the Assembly, reports "24 News". "We support Macedonia's aspirations for membership in NATO and the EU. We appeal to the government to deal with the intercepted material in...

Lawyer Angele Ilievski, defender of the first suspect in the case "Puch" Zoran Verushevski, in his statement for META denies the information conveyed by part of the media that the indictment against the suspects will be ready in a week. - The indictment cannot be ready in a week because we have a deadline of 15 days in which we...

By the end of next week, it is expected prosecutors to file charges against five of the six accused in the case "Puch", reports "Sitel". A valid verdict was already reached for the sixth suspect.

The process of investigation of the case "Puch" is over with the last interrogation of suspects yesterday, including opposition leader Zoran Zaev as fourth suspect and former counter-intelligence agent Zoran Verushevski. According to the legislation, Public Prosecutor now has 15 days to file an indictment.

Fourth defendant in the case "Puch", SDSM leader Zoran Zaev today will give a statement in the Public Prosecution. In the same case, the prime suspect Zoran Verushevski gave statement in the prosecution two days. On Tuesday, Zaev gave statement on the case "Bribery".

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was called to the Public Prosecution for organized crime to testify as impaired in the scandal "Puch", reports TV "Alfa". Zoran Zaev, who is suspected to have blackmailed Gruevski by compromising materials, which he got from Verushevski, should have testified on Thursday before the prosecutor for organized crime. MOI criminally prosecutes Zaev for violence against representatives of...

After the press conference of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, which took place on 31st of January 2015, when he announced scandal "Puch", the whole attention of the government, as well as its of leader, turned to the intrastate developments. On account of this, in turn, foreign policy agenda began to lag behind. Gruevski’s travels became rarer and visits of foreign...