Tag: Intelligence Agency

The fight against disinformation should not be seen as a threat to the freedom of expression or censorship, because it is not a matter of naively publishing news. On the contrary, disinformation campaigns are organized by the State and directed towards manipulating public opinion and pressuring decision-makers. This is what, inter alia, the Director of the Intelligence Agency, Erold Musliu,...

The proposal re-balance for the budget will cut the budgets at a majority of state institutions, but this is not the case for the Constitutional Court, the Ministry of Interior, or the Intelligence Agency. For example, the budget for 2016, funds allocated for the Constitutional Court are 35.945.000 denars, and with the proposal rebalance that amount will be 36.645.000 denars. In...

My influence over the Intelligence services has never been bigger than it is today,  said the former Head of Security and Counter Intelligence Agency (UBK) Zoran Verushevski, in reaction to an interview given by President Gjorgi Ivanov to "Dnevnik". "Georgie" mentioned me in “Dnevnik”- I would like to answer him with one sentence: Ivanov is lying to the domestic and...

At least seven Kosovo citizens who fought for the of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) in Syria, three weeks ago returned to the Balkans and took refuge in the region of Skopje, reports the Kosovo daily "Koha Ditore". Relying on information from intelligence agencies, including the Kosovo intelligence services, the newspaper writes that the jihadists who had returned...

President Gjorge Ivanov, today held a meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Macedonian Army (ARM), Commander of Joint Operations Command (JOC), directors and heads of the state bodies in charge of defense, security and intelligence, and the national Coordinator for Combating Terrorism, where they discussed what measures are needed to be taken about the current refugee crisis, but also...

The Intelligence Agency (AR) has a new website whose opening was announced today: www.ia.gov.mk and www.ia.mk. From the Agency they inform that the new website contains “all useful information about the work of the Intelligence Agency and about the span of its powers.” “Through the website of the AR, the citizens of Republic of Macedonia can submit information tied to any...