21 July 2024
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 […]
9 July 2024
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 […]
8 July 2024
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 […]
1 July 2024
The pro-Russian post aims to justify the military invasion of Russia in Ukraine. Presenting Ukraine as the land of the Nazis is a false propaganda platitude that Russian President Vladimir Putin used to justify the military invasion he started on the 24th of February 2022, completely unprovoked. The term “special military operation” is also a […]
29 June 2024
It is disinformation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought a casino and a hotel in Cyprus through his offshore company. High political representatives from Cyprus confirm the lack of evidence, while the site that initially published the “news”, deleted it afterward, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text […]
28 June 2024
The post claims with no basis in fact that the Poles “are preparing for direct battle” against the Russians, while the latter are “ready and waiting”, suggesting that Poland would attack first. To support the claim, the post shares footage of а convoy of trucks transporting tanks, thereby leaving the impression that the Poles will […]
27 June 2024
The Russian Embassy in Skopje congratulated our citizens on the holiday “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, generally describing them as Slav educators. The greetings of the Russian Embassy in Sofia, however, described them as Bulgarian, which was not accepted well in our country. The Russian Embassy in Athens, on the other hand, calls us “Skopya” behind […]
25 June 2024
A shabby narrative that even Putin doesn’t use anymore is persistently repeated about NATO wanting to control Ukraine so that it can install hypersonic missiles that could hit Moscow within 4-5 minutes leaving it incapacitated to respond promptly. That justifies the Russian aggression in Ukraine, but it makes no sense – several of Russia’s neighbors […]
24 June 2024
Starting in 2022 the EU banned several Russian media outlets, then on the 17th of May 2024 another four outlets were added to this list, which is completely justified. Unfortunately, disinformation has a rich tradition in Russia, dating back to the time of the czars, continuing in the USSR, and persisting under Putin’s leadership. He […]
23 June 2024
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives blaming Ukraine and the West for the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime-minister, Robert Fico, recall the same accusations related to the terrorist attack of City Hall Crocus in Moscow, which Truthmeter already covered. These unsubstantiated disinformation stories are part of a wider campaign of Russian official representatives and media, including Putin himself, […]
21 June 2024
On the 16th of April, the Kremlin published a report on a telephone conversation between President Vladimir Putin and the then-President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, regarding the conflict between Iran and Israel, claiming that the Russian President called for a ceasefire. The Kremlin statement, as reported by Reuters, noted that “Putin called upon all parties […]
13 June 2024
Lawyers specialized in Constitutional law said to the “Kyiv Independent” that extending Zelenskyy’s term is legal and in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine. Due to the martial law introduced when Putin sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, elections will not be organized when Zelenskyy’s term technically expires on 20 […]
19 May 2024
Russian Army is somewhat advancing, but not on all fronts – mainly in the Donetsk region – while Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, informs about taking over villages such as Bogdanovka, Novomihailovka and Pervomaiskoe, which is not much of a spectacular success for a superpower. Even today Russia does not have control over the entire […]
4 May 2024
The militant group Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow. On the day of the attack – the 23rd of March – ISIS published a photograph of four attackers. On the 24th of March, however, ISIS released a video of the attack at the concert hall. The video, confirmed to be real […]
25 March 2024
Putin’s regime is using the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) for spreading influence in Orthodox countries. The ROC is exerting enormous pressure on other churches and preventing the recognition of autocephaly status the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC). By means of intelligence actions, Russian priests are recruiting members of the clergy all over the local Balkan churches, […]
18 March 2024
Initially, I thought that the goal of the Russian influence operations was to create a kind of sympathy for the Russian regime and Russian ideology. But their main target now is simply to create more chaos inside the neighboring countries in order to kind of make us look the other way into our internal problems […]
1 March 2024
If the pressure from Russia was not that obvious in the Macedonian case with the banned imports of apples from Prespa, the example of Ecuador was pretty straightforward. By skillfully manipulating the business sector, the pressure put on the Ecuadorian leadership hit success and it changed its mind on the US offer to exchange the […]
1 March 2024
Despite this February marking the second anniversary since the start of Ukraine’s suffering at the hands of Russian aggression, which has resulted in thousands of casualties and never-ending destruction of everything significant for Ukraine and Ukrainians, Moscow’s disinformation campaign in regard to its military campaign continues to persistently spread throughout the world. Most recently, such […]
28 February 2024
Russian media Sputnik and RT (Russia Today) Balkans operating in Serbia, are used as propaganda tools by Putin’s Russia and represent Russian “soft power” in the region. This propaganda from Moscow, disseminated through the contents published by both Russian media outlets and republished by Serbian media, reaches, and is read everywhere in the Western Balkans, […]
8 February 2024
The EU has never called for a war with Russia but has helped Ukraine to preserve its territorial integrity and democratic society. Europe condemns Russian aggression and appeals for it to stop. The claim that Macedonian citizens should prepare for mobilization is just arbitrary. So far, no one has announced any kind of mobilization. This […]
