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Dr. Rumena Filipova: The oligarchs in Bulgaria are the main controllers of the media and main disinformation proxies

Dr. Rumena Filipova is DPhil and MPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford, having completed her undergraduate studies at the university of Cambridge. She taught undergraduate courses at Oxford University, and she has been a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center, the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House and other international institutes and think-tanks. Dr. Filipova is now...

Hungarian funding supports spread of disinformation between Greece, Slovenia and North Macedonia

During July 2019 a new trend for spreading disinformation affected the online sphere in North Macedonia. Possibly to compensate for lack of coverage of political events that can be misconstrued during the vacation season, social media were flooded with links to old articles promoted through Facebook ads and right-wing Facebook groups. Some of these articles were originally published within the...

Retired colonel of the Yugoslav counterintelligence speculates that CIA is working against Serbia from a car dealership in Skopje

Several Serbian media outlets have recently promoted a conspiracy theory – the counterintelligence services of the Balkan countries, in a car dealership in Skopje, are preparing to assassinate Serbian oppositionists. Afterwards, the “West” would blame these crimes on Vučić’s government. The Serbian weekly newspaper ”Pečat“ in the issue released on 19 July 2019, published a text entitled: “Noose for Serbia” (original:...

Asya Metodieva: Western Balkans suffers from weak media systems and lack of transparency

Ms Asya Metodieva is a PhD Candidate at Central European University (CEU), Budapest researching radical movements, with a focus on foreign fighter recruitment. Her policy paper “Russian Narrative Proxies in the Western Balkans”, which was recently published by the German Marshal Fund (GMF), explores the growth of anti-West/pro-Russia narratives in the Western Balkans by looking at the role of...

Hahn advises to continue the reform process and to adopt the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office

The Republic of North Macedonia deserves a green light in October for start of the negotiations with EU on the ground of all its accomplishment in the reform process in the last few years, with the Prespa Agreement, but also with the Good Neighborly Relations Agreement with Bulgaria, the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes...

Sitistas and Daniilidis, “Ellinika Hoaxes”: The fake news is a “bomb” in the foundation of democracy

Nikos Kokalias (photographer) and „Kathimerini“
Theodoros Daniilidis is the founder, and Thanos Sitistas is the editor of “Ellinika Hoaxes”, the most famous website in Greece that debunks disinformation and fake news. It has been doing that in the past six years, since 2013. In the interview for “Meta.mk”, Daniilidis and Sitistas say that the Greeks are pretty prone to believe fake news, but also...

The distance between the riots in Skopje and the mosque in Ohrid is 175 km and 100 light years

With the formulation "Riots in Skopje: Macedonians are causing riots because of the arrival of the Turkish President Erdogan", the Serbian portal "Dnevno.rs" unsuccessfully tried to attract more readers by using a bombastic title for their article. It was placed on a normal article that was actually a reprinted news article by the Serbian news agency Beta about the visit...

Through the tolls we pay for the loans, interests and commissions for the motorways (video + infographic)

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Despite the fact that the Macedonians have the lowest salaries in Europe, they still pay very expensive tolls. The compensation for one kilometer by car is 2,6 denars, and the adoption of the new toll price in 2014 was justified by VMRO-DPMNE, which claimed that the global economic crisis has ended and the compensation must be increased to the...

From Domestic “Bombs” to a Russian Salad: Four Year’s Audio Golgotha

The recorded phone conversation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Russian comics Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lexus (Alexei Stolyarov) who pranked the Macedonian Prime Minister introducing themselves as the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, from yesterday (9 July 2019) is the top topic among the public in Macedonia, but also abroad. The video...

Greek website spreads disinformation about 200.000 homosexuals in North Macedonia

Фото: Арбнора Мехмети
Greek website "Valkaniko Periscopo" which published various types of news from the Balkans region including the USA, the Near East, Russia, Armenia and even from Libia, two days after the first Pride Parade in Skopje occurred, has published a news that refers to a Macedonian website that states even 200.000 people in Macedonia are homosexuals. The number stated by this...

Journalists from North Macedonia and Greece agree to fight disinformation together

The problems of disinformation and the steps to fight it was the topic of the workshop that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Thessaloniki, with the participation of 35 journalists, experts and NGO staff from North Macedonia and Greece. The workshop was co-hosted by the US Embassies in Greece and North Macedonia, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC),...

Dimitrov: All issues with Bulgaria can be resolved through mutual respect

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov, believes that our country and Bulgaria share common goals and that it will be possible to find a way through mutual friendship and respect, to resolve the problems that erupted in the previous period. - I am convinced that our country and Bulgaria share major common goals. As neighbors that signed the Treaty on...

Why build a motorway and not an expressway between Prilep and Bitola?

The Minister of Transport and Communications Goran Sugareski and the Director of the Public Entreprise (PE) for State Roads Zoran Kitanov last week announced that this year the state will start with the project of the future motorway Prilep-Bitola. In the annual program of PE State roads for 2019 there is an entry for completing the project documentation for...

Tsipras: North Macedonia meets the criteria for start of negotiations

The postponing of accession talks with North Macedonia was not because North Macedonia did not implement the reforms but is due to procedural reasons, said the Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras in an interview for the Greek State television ERT3 concerning the concluding remarks that EU gave for our country. He explains that this decision is due to the inability...

Canada ratifies the Protocol for North Macedonia’s accession to NATO

"Canada is pleased to ratify North Macedonia accession to @NATO. As we celebrate 70 years of NATO, we look forward to welcoming 🇲🇰 as the Alliance’s 30th member in the near future", the Canadian MFA announced. Canada is the 18th country to ratify the Protocol for North Macedonia's accession to NATO.

More than half of the NATO member-states ratified the protocol for membership of North Macedonia

More than half of the member-states of NATO ratified the protocol for accession of North Macedonia to the Alliance. Germany is the newest, 16th country, from a total of 29 members of the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty, which ratified the protocol-annex of the original Washington Treaty with which, in 1945, the military alliance was created. The Protocol for accession...

Roth: The EU should fulfill its promises to Macedonia

The European Union should fulfill the promises made to the Western Balkan countries, says the Minister of State for Europe at the German Foreign Ministry, Michael Roth, after yesterday's recommendation by the European Commission that Macedonia and Albania have met the conditions and should immediately start membership negotiations with the Union. "There has been visible progress in Macedonia and Albania....

“Facebook” removes 212 fake profiles from North Macedonia and Kosovo

In a recent report sent to the European Commission (EC), as a signatory to the Code of Practice Against Disinformation, Facebook says it has taken down eight coordinated networks of fake profiles from North Macedonia, Kosovo and Russia in the last few weeks. Facebook say the report explains that in total they removed over 2,000 profiles, pages and groups,...

Analysis: Ethnic Albanian votes will elect the president in the second round

Фото: Борче Поповски
The first round of the presidential elections held last Sunday left the ruling coalition shaken, with one of the lowest turnouts and other plebiscitary forms in independent Macedonia. The candidate of the ruling coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, is slightly leading the vote count ahead of his main opponent, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, i.e. he is advancing to the run-off with only 4.486...

The first round with the narrowest difference in the last 5 elections (infographic)

Фото: Борче Поповски
The first round of the presidential elections held yesterday has had the narrowest difference in the votes between the two candidates in the last five presidential elections i.e. Stevo Pendarovski won only 4.606 votes more than Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova. In consequence, the chances for successful prediction on the outcome of the second round are very slim, if we try...