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North Macedonia will not withdraw from Open Balkan Initiative despite Serbia’s position on Russia
The Government of North Macedonia will not withdraw from the "Open Balkan Initiative" regardless of Serbia's refusal to impose sanctions on Russia, as the West, but also Albania and North Macedonia did, due to the aggression on Ukraine. According to the Government fo North Macedonia, Serbia's position regarding the situation in Ukraine is its inner affair, writes Portalb.mk.
"Notwithstanding what...
Defense Minister of North Macedonia: We are not sending soldiers to Ukraine
There is a decision for sending aid in the form of equipment and arms to Ukraine, in accordance with their requests, but this country hasn’t made a decision to send soldiers. There will be no such decision, said Defense Minister of North Macedonia, Slavjanka Petrovska, during the celebration of the Macedonian Army Special Forces Battalion Day. She said that...
Protesters in front of Russian embassy in Skopje shout ‘Putin is a fascist’ demanding end to war against Ukraine
Dozens of citizens of North Macedonia and Ukrainians residing in Skopje protested against Russian invasion on Ukraine through a march from the main square of the capital of North Macedonia to the Russian embassy on February 25. They sung Ukrainian songs and shouted "Putin is a fascist, Putin is a murderer" while carrying signs reading "Russia keep off Ukraine,"...
Truthmeter: Grandmother from Russia did not invent secret recipe for high blood pressure
The Truthmeter review showed that the woman in the photo had nothing to do with “a Russian grandmother offering a secret recipe.” This photo can be found on sales sites and can be bought for less than 10 Euros. The “secret recipe”, on the other hand, is that onion water is not a recommendation from doctors for the treatment...
Fighting Russian trolls: “Elves Army” fights Russian propaganda in Lithuania
Russian “troll farms” – organized online agitators identify complaints in other countries and then insert themselves in those debates in order to boost them. Instead of promoting a political ideology, professional Russian trolls focus on stirring up emotions over heated topics, such as gun control issues or immigration to the United States, to then turn Americans against Americans. The...
Ukraine expects support from North Macedonia in its efforts to stop Russia
Ukraine Ambassador to North Macedonia, Natalia Zadorozhnyuk, speaking today about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, said that it would not be an exaggeration to say that today the fate of the international legal order is being decided. In her speech at the panel discussion on “Ukrainian-Russian Crisis and North Macedonia”, she stressed that either we will live in...
Creating fascination with Russia’s power in media and on social networks in North Macedonia
One of the simplest ways to influence a wider number of people is to glorify a country. Positive glorification can evoke admiration, a sense of belonging and community, a sense of protection, an ever-present refuge, an alternative available to citizens and the state… This is especially possible in times of stunted development or unfulfilled expectations or dissatisfaction with speed...
Why does Putin want escalation with the West?
The former head of the Bulgarian state intelligence agency Dimo Gjaurov, in an interview with TV Nova, commented that one of the goals of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the escalation of the conflict with Ukraine is to force Europe and the United States to open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Meanwhile, the partner of EURACTIV Europe Elects, estimates...
Portalb: Distorted statement by Russian official instills fear of a “Great war”
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 Russian official are distorted...
North Macedonia pays highest prices for methane in the neighborhood, even though Gazprom lowered its price by 13%
Russian company Gazprom has reached an agreement with the North Macedonia company Makpetrol to lower the price of the methane in North Macedonia (compressed natural gas - CNG) by 13%. As a result, instead of 110 MKD per kg, starting from yesterday, at Makpetrol's kg methane can be purchased for 96 MKD.
Starting from the 1st of January this year,...
Rosana Aleksoska: Russian influence is Particularly Present At Important Periods and Events in North Macedonia
The NGO MOST recently published a study dedicated to the fight against false news and narratives. The study “Disinformation and information distortion in North Macedonia December 2021” focuses on the dominant narratives in 2020, with a special focus on articles published in the period from January 1 to May 10. A total of 2,658 articles from 211 portals and...
Truthmeter.mk: Janko Bachev’s pro-Russian party a part of VMRO-DPMNE’s pressure on small parties
Truthmeter.mk published the original text. Meta.mk is republishing it below under the syndicating agreement:
Janko Bacev’s openly pro-Russian non-parliamentary political party sent a statement to the public entitled “United Macedonia to DS, LDP, DOM and VMRO-NP: If you really want one constituency, seize the chance given by VMRO-DPMNE.”
They call on the Democratic Union led by Pavle Trajanov, the Democratic Renewal...
“Institutional silence” about name board for Ukrainian city of Sevastopol on Russian children playground in Skopje, North Macedonia
For more than a month, the Centar Municipality, City Hall of Skopje and the Foreign Affairs Ministry of North Macedonia are silent about the questions sent by Meta.mk about the new Russian playground behind the Universal Hall in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The playground had a board set and then removed, that had the name of the...
Russian authorities add oppositionist Navalny to the “Terrorists list”
The leading Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who has been jailed for a year, has been proclaimed a “terrorist” by the Russian state. The loudest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule has been included in the list of “terrorists and extremists” by Russia’s federal financial monitoring service, Rosfinmonitoring, Voice of America reports.
Together with Navalny, five of his associates were...
Portalb: Unnecessary media hyperbolization and glorification of Russian military equipment
This is an article that hyperbolically and sensationally glorifies Russian military equipment. The headline “Russia presented the Beast in the Sky: “We will deal with America using this” is a typical example of unprofessional journalistic reporting, which aims to mislead the public, writes Portalb.mk.
On January 6, 2022, through a sensational headline, N-news Media informs readers that Russia has introduced...
Truthmeter.mk: The vaccine does not change your genome and you do not become prey to a “transhumanist agenda”
Meta.mk republishes in its entirety Truthmeter.mk's fact-check:
We are reviewing a Facebook post in which a video was shared by a Russian bishop, who said that “global elites want to wipe out 6 billion people.” He adds that world leaders marched under the banner of transhumanism. The post we are reviewing adds that Russia is at a historic crossroads before...
Truthmeter.mk: Narratives which Russia uses to influence news media in Western Balkans
A research titled "Russia’s narratives toward the Western Balkans", published by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE) identified several Russian narratives in the news media in the Western Balkans. The research is based on the media reporting in 2018, which cited the Serbian edition of the Russian state news agency "Sputnik". The Sputnik website, which...
Rama: External forces court the Western Balkans, but there will be no renunciation of the EU membership
It is frustrating to wait, but Western Balkan leaders need to reject proposals from foreign powers and maintain faith in EU membership, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama appealed in an interview with the Financial Times
“Others can bring money, investment, maybe even caviar, but they will not be able to bring what you need to build a functioning free country,”...
Zadorozhniuk: Nazism is not glorified in Ukraine, we lost over 8 million people in WWII
Ukraine in the period between 1939 and 1945, in WWII, lost over 8 million people and it has no reasons to glorify the Nazism, says the Ukrainian ambassador in North Macedonia, Natalia Zadorozhniuk after the protest on the 20th of January in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Skopje, held with the slogan "Objecting the glorification of the nazism...
Truthmeter.mk: A protest justifying aggression against a sovereign country
A small group of citizens protested in front of the Ukrainian embassy last week with a classic exchange of theses – to declare the victim of aggression by the “big brother” a justified goal and to wrap it all in some imaginary ideological sugarcoating, writes Truthmeter.mk
We republish the analysis below:
Is there any justification for the annexation of a part...
