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Moscow: The constitutional changes are against the will of the people, the UN’s Security Council should discuss the name
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Informing and Press Relations has called the passing of the new amendments of the Macedonian Constitution in order to change the country's name as "an artificial change of the country's name in order for an enforced entering of Skopje into NATO" and stated that the problem with the country's renaming should...
Bulgarian and Serbian media prematurely change the name of Macedonia
While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the texts that Macedonia was...
Constitutional amendments were passed with 81 votes
With 81 votes in favor and no votes against or withheld, this evening, MPs have cast their votes at Parliament i.e. the amendments from 33 to 35, which are Macedonia's obligation according to the Prespa Agreement that was signed on the 17th of June last year.
Previously, the Alliance of the Albanians and BESA's MPs withdrew their amendments.
According to Constitutional...
Bulgarian media are resurrecting a nationalist myth by resurrecting the “Bloody Christmas” of 1945 in Macedonia
On Monday, Christmas day in Macedonia, a large part of the Bulgarian media recalled the so-called “Bloody Christmas” of January 7, 1945, when “1200 Bulgarians” were killed in the present territory of the Republic of Macedonia or the then Federal Democratic Republic of Macedonia.
For instance, let’s take the article published by faktor.bg, where in addition to this claim they...
Macedonia’s Seven Steps to NATO membership
Formally, there are seven steps, however, two are essential for Macedonia to have full-fledged NATO membership. The process, according to statements, should finish by the end of the year.
The first step is the adoption of constitutional changes, that is, the formal implementation of the Prespa Agreement. The full implementation of the agreement between "Skopje-Athens" is also a formal condition...
Stoltenberg: Skopje and Athens to ratify the Prespa Agreement by February 15
NATO urges the parliaments of Macedonia and Greece to fulfill all their obligations regarding the Prespa Agreement that resolves the name dispute. That was the main stipulation of the letter that the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly sent to both Skopje and Athens, noting that the Alliance expects as fast as possible process.
"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly sent a...
TOP 5 2018 CounterSpins: The main spinning topics
To choose five spins that were unspinned in our article “Kontraspin” is quite a small number for everything that happened throughout 2018, in which the truth was twisted. The slogans “we do not give the name” or “you sold the name”, was the major twisting of the truth i.e. spinning in 2018, and this topic was immediately followed by...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the Referendum of September 30
Since the announcement of the referendum until it was held there was a lot of information in the public on its type, who will support it, who will boycott it, whether the census will be reduced and so on. Many fake news and disinformation were present in the social networks and the media, writes “CriThink”.
On September 30, a Referendum...
Top 5 cases of disinformation about the Prespa Agreement
On 17.06.2018, in the village of Nivici (Psarades) on the Greek coast of Prespa Lake, the foreign ministers of Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Dimitrov and Nikolaos Kotzias, have signed the “FINAL AGREEMENT FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFERENCES AS DESCRIBED IN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS 817 (1993) AND 845 (1993), THE TERMINATION OF THE INTERIM ACCORD OF 1995, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the escape of Gruevski
From the entire range of disinformation about the escape of Gruevski on November 11, we have chosen the following five as the biggest i.e. most flagrant ones when it comes to their mendacity, especially since they are a product of someone’s imagination, without any connection with the reality and which were proven to be completely false.
The escape of the...
Maslov: Russia doesn’t oppose Macedonia’s new name, it opposes NATO membership
Russia doesn't oppose the Prespa Agreement regarding the name but it opposes Macedonia's membership into NATO, said Russian Ambassador to Greece, Andrej Maslov during a briefing in Athens regarding the visit of the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras in Moscow.
- If Athens and Skopje reach an agreement about the name and if that is officially accepted by the Republic of Macedonia's...
Lamppost in a village near Blagoevgrad is the home address for thousands of Macedonians holding Bulgarian passports
A lamppost in a village near Blagoevgrad is the address for thousands of Macedonians holding a Bulgarian passport, and is a part of the grand scheme of a sale of Bulgarian citizenships for money, said Katja Maneva in an interview for EU Observer. She is a former director for citizenships at the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice. She has worked...
Zaev on Kosovo’s military: We don’t need new tension
Today, Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after three laws were passed in the Kosovo parliament that envisages the transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces into Kosovo's Army, said that at this moment the region does not need any new tension.
-I know that NATO's position is the same as ours: Now is not the time! We do not need any...
Pope Francis will visit Macedonia on May 7
The government has announced that Pope Francis will be visiting Macedonia on May 7th, next year, after being invited by the state government.
For now, it is certain that the head of the Roman Catholic Church will visit Skopje, the birthplace of the holy Mother Teresa. For more details of the visit, the Government will release more details closer to the...
Nimetz: I am ready to help Macedonia and Greece if necessary
The Prespa Agreement is a very important step for the region's stability and relations between Macedonia and Greece, said UN special envoy, Matthew Nimetz, after a meeting with acting foreign minister, George Katrougalos.
-Obviously, the political process in both countries is making progress, and me as the UN envoy remain ready to help. If both sides need my help, the UN...
US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan will be visiting Macedonia
The US Deputy Secretary of State, John Sullivan, will start his European tour today and on Tuesday he will visit Skopje.
He will also visit Bratislava, Vienna, Sofia, Sarajevo and Warsaw.
Sullivan will arrive in Skopje on the 18th of December and he will be the highest ranking Department of State's official to visit Macedonia since 2001.
According to the announcement issued...
Živaljević and his boss settle in BiH, while Sarajevo fear their own April 27
Goran Živaljević, the Serbian intelligence officer who photographed himself in Parliament during the brutal violence on 27 April, 2017, has been in Sarajevo since the beginning of November, this year, at the Serbian embassy.
The first position - ambassador - is carried out by his boss from May this year, former director of the Serbian security and intelligence agency -...
Karakachanov ignores history and even agreements signed by his own government
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov and President of the VMRO-BND, followed by Bulgarian MEP Andrej Kovachev of the GERB, both members of the Bulgarian political right-wing party, have expressed severe views regarding the Macedonian national identity this weekend and threatened to block Macedonia's membership in the EU and NATO if Macedonia continues to talk about the Macedonian...
Lavrov accused the EU and the US for interference in Macedonia’s internal affairs
There is a rough systematic interference by the US and the EU in the internal affairs of Macedonia. On a daily basis, its citizens were asked to vote in favor of the Prespa Agreement in the referendum on 30 September this year. The referendum, as it is known, failed. In this situation in the House on 19 October, with...
There is no “Pact against Serbia” even though Serbian tabloid “Alo” insists there is
Serbian tabloid "Alo", announcing the start of the Central European Initiative Summit in Zagreb, said that there will also be some discussions concerning the establishment of a pact which became the main topic in the Balkan media, following statements by Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj for the Croatian newspaper "Vecernji List". This comes only one day after Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran...
