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Russia’s Destructive Disinformation Igniting American Political Scene

28 March 2024

Key witness in the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden, regarding the alleged receipt of bribes from an Ukrainian company through his son Hunter Biden, initiated by a Republican politician from the US House of Representatives, apparently did not tell the truth when sharing confidential information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Not only […]

Russian propaganda spreads panic over alleged coup in Ukraine again

18 March 2024

Disinformation is circulating in the region regarding Ukrainian special forces being dissatisfied with the Ukrainian Army’s new leadership and their subsequent preparation for a coup. As has previously been the case, the disinformation comes from the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. This time, the news agency is using an alleged voice message from a […]

Protest in front of Russian embassy in Berlin at Navalny’s death

19 February 2024

Some 250 demonstrators gathered near the Russian embassy in Berlin on Sunday to protest at the death of jailed dissident Alexei Navalny, police in the German capital reported. The organizers had registered a protest by 450 people, German agency DPA reported. Shortly before the protest called for the early afternoon, the Pussy Riot protest group […]

Unwanted imports: Anti-EU Kremlin disinformation rides high in N. Macedonia

27 January 2024

Most of the anti-EU Kremlin disinformation in N. Macedonia originate abroad, both in Russia and in the West, and then arrive in the country through the social platforms and some through the internet media. Some of them are then adjusted to the local context, and the small number of disinformation pushing Kremlin narratives are native. […]

No Unification between Russia and Belarus

12 July 2023

Photo: Kremlin.ru The post carries a false statement by Peskov disinforming that some kind of unification will happen between Russia and Belarus. Our check showed that neither Peskov made a statement claiming that Putin’s address from 26th June will determine the fate of Russia, nor did Putin announce any kind of unification with Belarus in […]

Bakhmut is a Ukrainian city; Russia attacked it, didn’t liberate it

30 May 2023

Photo: Screenshot from the video Bakhmut is an Ukrainain city and it cannot be liberated from the Russians as claimed by the post. Russia attacked Bakhmut and destroyed it completely. The fact that Russia claims that this city is Russian is far from reality. According to Kyiv, parts of Bakhmut are still under the control […]

Alternative medicine magazines as another tool for glorifying Russia through propaganda

28 April 2022

In North Macedonia, several Russian alternative medicine magazines are sold: “Russian herbalist”, “Russian doctor” and “Russian medicine”. They send messages such as: “Russian advice is worth your health”, “Russians have medicine” and “You ask, Russian doctors answer”. In these magazines, folk medicine is “Russian folk medicine”, and various folk recipes are also “Russian recipes”. But […]

Truthmeter.mk: Narratives which Russia uses to influence news media in Western Balkans

28 January 2022

A research titled “Russia’s narratives toward the Western Balkans”, published by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE) identified several Russian narratives in the news media in the Western Balkans. The research is based on the media reporting in 2018, which cited the Serbian edition of the Russian state news agency “Sputnik”. […]

Truthmeter.mk: A protest justifying aggression against a sovereign country

26 January 2022

A small group of citizens protested in front of the Ukrainian embassy last week with a classic exchange of theses – to declare the victim of aggression by the “big brother” a justified goal and to wrap it all in some imaginary ideological sugarcoating, writes Truthmeter.mk We republish the analysis below:   Is there any […]

Global Voices: Russia blocks access to Tor browser website

16 December 2021

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 Project website since 1 December, writes “Global Voices”. Meta.mk republishes the […]

Facebook joins the fight against disinformation by removing three Russian troll networks that spread media manipulations in Africa

13 November 2019

Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cyber-security Policy of Facebook announced that on October 30 this social media company has removed three networks composed of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign interference — which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign actor — on Facebook and Instagram. They originated in Russia and targeted Madagascar, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Democratic Republic […]

Soft power: How alternative medicine publications promote brand Russia in the Balkans

12 April 2019

One method for spreading Russian influence in the Balkans is through alternative medicine magazines. While the newspaper industry in all Balkan countries is in steep decline, numbers of magazines with titles like “Russian Doctor,” “Russian Herbalist,” “Russian Encyclopedia of Health” had been increasing since 2015. At least half dozens of them originate in Serbia and […]

Russian news agency “Sputnik” calls country “N. Macedonia”

24 October 2018

Russian news agency “Sputnik News”, formerly known as “RIA Novosti” and “Voice of Russia”, has already renamed the Republic of Macedonia to North Macedonia. Under the headline “Greece, N. Macedonia have “started talking” despite “identity conflict”, the Russian agency that is part of the government’s media consortium “Rossiya Segodnya”, published an interview with Professor Neophytos Loizides […]

Putin to visit Serbia either in October or November

4 September 2018

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will visit Serbia either in October or November this year, announced today the Russian Ambassador in Belgrade, Alexandar Chepurin. -We expect that President Putin will visit Serbia either in October or in November – said Chepurin during his visit to the building of the railroad tunnel Chortanovci, that is […]

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