7 June 2023
Photo: Screenshot from the video It is not true that Graham said “The Russian are dying. It’s the best money we have ever spent”, while the clip claiming such a thing has been wrongfully edited. A longer version of the conversation, published by the Ukrainian Government, followed by Reuters, inter alia, shows that both segments […]
6 May 2023
NATO neither started the military invasion, nor does it have troops in Ukraine. Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and Ukraine, as an independent country, has the right to defend itself and use available means of assistance from its friends. NATO is sending military aid to Ukraine without being a party to the war. The […]
5 May 2023
In the video with the post, analyst Gilbert Doctorow does not present a single source of evidence for his claim that during a missile attack of Russia, NATO generals hiding in a bunker in Ukraine were killed. His only attribution is the “Russians”. According to official Ukrainian sources, NATO bases are opened only on the […]
4 May 2023
Russian propaganda uses various forms of social media and channels to spread its propaganda. It is fighting a war in Ukraine, but also waging a hybrid war with many other countries. North Macedonia and the Balkans are the target of this propaganda, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the […]
9 April 2023
Unlike the influence of Russia and China in North Macedonia that – to a large extent – is disseminated on the basis of positive identification and desired and/or shared values, we might say that the influence realized by Bulgaria is based on narratives overflowing with rejection, denial, and even animosity, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing […]
17 March 2023
The Russian Embassy in Skopje is a record-breaker when it comes to the number of Facebook posts. The country is of top regional interest of Kremlin – out of the whole Balkans, only the Russian diplomatic mission in Romania posts more frequently on Facebook. The hybrid war in North Macedonia by the Russian Secret Services […]
28 February 2023
The paramilitary group Wagner, by means of a paid announcement on 5th January on Russia Today Balkan in Serbian language, called for all potential volunteers from Serbia to join the war in Ukraine, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below: Under the title ”Wagner publishes a […]
16 February 2023
The claim that Russia declared the Dollar invalid payment currency is out of context. There is lack of Dollars in cash in Russia hence the limit of Dollars that one can withdraw from the banks. Otherwise, in Russia, even before the military invasion, the payment currency that could have been used in the payment system […]
23 January 2023
The post claims that the reserves of the Central Bank of Russia increased by 5.5 billion Dollars within several days and that in the foreign currency reserve was 582 billion Dollars in January. What has been omitted in this post however, is that Russia cannot use more than half of these funds. Approximately 300 billion […]
28 September 2022
In the two Macedonian parties with a pro-Russian ideology, “Rodina Makedonija” and “Obedineta Makedonija”, there has been turbulence in the recent period, that is, over 240 founders from “Rodina Macedonia” submitted to the Constitutional Court a request to leave the party, and for it to be deleted from the register of parties. One of the […]
27 September 2022
A Facebook post misinforms about the alleged segregationist policy of Riga’s public transport company. It falsely claims that Russian-speaking passengers are required to sit in the back of the bus. The transport company “Rīgas satiksme” (Riga Transport) has denied this claim. Latvia’s state news agency LETA reported that police have launched an investigation into alleged […]
26 September 2022
A photo is going viral on social media that is deliberately manipulated and creates a wrong public opinion about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and about who is responsible for the deaths of the killed and buried in mass graves. The claim that Ukrainians are responsible for these mass graves has nothing to do with […]
26 September 2022
The photo in the post we are reviewing, which contains the Ukrainian flag, has been graphically altered and edited, to falsely represent that the flag is Ukrainian. The photo was taken next to the statue of Lenin in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk, next to the administrative building of this city in the Kemerovo region […]
21 September 2022
What is stated in the title of the text, shared in the post we are reviewing, is not true: “The Russians announced: 830 Ukrainian combat vehicles destroyed in one day”. The figure refers to the beginning of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, which can be seen from the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense […]
30 August 2022
The leader of the political party “United Macedonia”, Janko Bačev, shared on his Facebook profile a statement allegedly made by the former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro. However, even though Castro never said anything like Bačev claims, this post has gone viral with 180 shares and over 1,000 reactions, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement […]
31 March 2022
According to our research, we are convinced that the three books disputed by the Russian Embassy in North Macedonia can be purchased in different languages in several foreign countries, that the reprints of the republished editions are almost completely sold out, but also that there is an expert debate as is the case and in […]
28 February 2022
Analysis of the disinformation and conspiracy theories about the “Ukrainian scenario”, the “colored revolution” and the “Macedonian Maidan” with which Russian propaganda and its local allies in 2015 imposed narratives to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine and anti-democratic populist regimes of Putin and Gruevski, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we […]
10 February 2022
Conflicts of great powers, especially the threat of war are always a media topic that affects readers and produces a lot of clicks. On the other hand, if such information is sensational, unsupported by arguments, misrepresented and hyperbolized, it is detrimental to quality journalism. In the text we are analyzing, the public statements of the […]
5 February 2022
Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the closure of the “Memorial”, the country’s most prominent human rights group, which dealt with the Stalin-era purges, symbolizing post-Soviet democratization, Euroactiv reports, according to Portalb.mk. The verdict against “Memorial” comes a year after Russian authorities arrested President Vladimir Putin’s main critic, Alexei Navalny, in a historic blow to […]
31 January 2022
After Bulgaria and Romania, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday commented on Macedonia’s membership in NATO. Instead of “North Macedonia”, in the answers to the questions of the program “Weekly Time” on the state Russian television “First Channel”, he named the country as “Macedonia”. Asked about NATO’s enlargement with new member states and whether it […]
