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The Russian Embassy in North Macedonia is marking the anniversaries of Macedonian  historical figures on their social media platforms. This comes off as highly unusual and inappropriate for two reasons. Firstly, it is the Embassy’s job to promote its own country, not ours. Secondly, Russia has helped not helped any of those historical figures in any way. The Russian...

A new study by an international team of fact-checkers, led by Maldita.es, traced the path of Russian disinformation about Zelensky, his family, and those in his inner circle. The disinformation traveled from fake news portals and small YouTube channels, through X profiles (formerly Twitter), to RT and Russian embassies around the world, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk...

A chain reaction of Russian high-level officials was triggered by the delivery and operational deployment of long-range Western missile systems used by the U.S. and Germany. At the beginning of June 2024, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament confirmed to CNN that the Ukrainian military started using the HIMARS missile systems, delivered by the U.S., to target Russian air defense...

For the past 10 years, Russia has been committing acts of aggression against Ukraine. However, it is Russia that has repeatedly accused Ukraine terrorism, accusing the country of being behind the terrorist attack on the Crocus Hall, despite Islamist fighters taking responsibility for the atrocity. Now, Russia is also blaming Ukraine for the missile attack on the beach in...

The authenticity of the “Putin” chants by Romanian fans is called into question, especially given their show of respect for Ukraine at the beginning of the match, as was noted by Mythdetector. The German newspaper “Bild” specifies that at the beginning of the match, approximately 40 thousand Romanian fans chanted “Ukraine” for some time as a sign of respect...

By: Elida Zylbeari, editor in chief of the Albanian version of Truthmeter and the online portal Portalb.mk   In this interview, Truthmeter.mk speaks with Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, a prominent figure in the world of fact-checking and the chair of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). With a deep understanding of the mechanisms behind disinformation, Carlos sheds light on the efficacy of fact-checking and its critical role in today’s media landscape....

The trident has been linked with Ukrainian history for quite a long time. That was the sign of the predecessors of Dynasty Rurik (10-12 century, time of Kyiv Russia). In 1918, immediately after the fall of the Russian Empire, the government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic chose the trident as the country’s coat of arms. It is not the first time...

Footage of a flight of fighter jets, lacking a source or evidence, is falsely described as a Russian penetration of US airspace. If that were true, which is not, would present an unimaginable incident that would be all over the front pages of the media and would cause a diplomatic war in the UN, if not a Third World...

A Facebook video is falsely described as showing mobilization on the streets of Ukraine. In reality, the footage captures the arrest of a criminal group and their clients who paid for transportation to the Moldovan border, along with assistance in illegal border crossings to avoid mobilization. That is how the event is described not only by the Ukrainian media but...

The Coca-Cola Company applied to the Russian Patent Service to reregister: Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and some other of its trademarks, which was incorrectly interpreted by some media as the company’s official return to the Russian market. Unofficially these beverages are already present in the market, though through the grey economy, as they are imported from different countries. Every company is protecting its intellectual property, and...

According to unofficial information from Ukrainian media, the former Deputy Healthcare Minister of Ukraine, Mykhaylo Zagriychuk, is a suspect for meddling (intervening) with the Single State Transplantation Information System, or more precisely, for manipulating the list of the automatic pairing system – organ donor and recipient, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text in full...

A Facebook post is spreading false information that the English language has no equivalent for the Russian expression “ni dushi” (ни души) or the equivalent in our language “ni zhiva dusha” (ни жива душа). Consequently, the English and the Americans use the word “nobody”, which allegedly is evidence that they lack spirit and see only the material and physical,...

The days before the arrival of the Russian warships, images and videos were circulating online, allegedly showing the arrival of the frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” in the port of Havana. That is the case with the post we are fact-checking, but the video is an old one and not from this recent arrival, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk...

Truthmeter did not manage to find a single official information about Georgia renewing its diplomatic relations with Russia and opening an embassy in Moscow. Nothing like that is present on the official X accounts of the party Georgian Dream or Georgian Government. The news that Georgia is preparing to open an embassy in Moscow was denied by both the...

Bloomberg published recent insights from documents revealing that Russian agent Artem Kureyev led a Russian influence campaign in Europe, managing to contact the Macedonian Darko Todorovski. They agreed on a payment of 300 Euros to write articles in two publications. Their correspondence included instructions for disseminating the articles in Russian and English translations on proxy websites such as londonnewstime.com...

A Facebook post, responding negatively to the fact that Ukraine and Moldova received recommendations for starting EU accession talks, expresses mixed: personal opinions, which the author is fully entitled to express; some undisputable facts, which, of course, are legitimate; but also tendentious silence thereby depriving the public of the entire context of the situation; and even blatant lies that...

A Facebook video purportedly shows a fight between Ukrainian citizens and the Recruitment Service enforcing the mobilization. It is described as a scene of resistance “against Zelenskyy’s regime,” even though the claim is unsubstantiated by a source and it is unclear what is happening in the footage. The person who published the footage is asking ‘why such clips from...

Turkish media did not report a single protest in front of the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul following the Rafah airstrike on the 26th of May. The Demiroren News Agency reported on the 27th of May that an anti-Israeli group chanted slogans outside the US Consulate in the Southern Turkish city of Adana, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk...

The claim that NATO and Germany are deploying 90 thousand troops to the Ukranian front against Russia is false. The issue at hand is actually the largest NATO military drill, which began in January 2024 and concluded in May 2024. The video shared in the post is from a press conference of the German General Carsten Breuer and can be...

Recently, Moscow’s threats of using nuclear weapons have become more frequent, while the Kremlin disinformation machinery on social networks is trying to accuse NATO of “preparing for a nuclear attack on Russia,” although there are no such announcements but just threats aiming to prevent the assistance for Ukraine coming from NATO member states, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between...