Tag: Ukrainë

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,"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Slavjanka Petrovska, the minister of defense of North Macedonia said for NMacedonian TV 24 that the state institutions are following-up on the situation in Ukraine, in the light of the repositioning of the Russian armed forces on the border with Ukraine. "I have to highlight that we completely support the efforts within the framework of the NATO Alliance and the...

The Russian-themed children’s playground behind the Universal Hall in Skopje, built with money from the Municipality of Centar and the Russian Embassy in North Macedonia, caused a kind of a diplomatic scandal. Meta.mk discovered that among the boards with names of Russian cities, there was a board with the name of the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol. It's the...

Be careful - be ware of a new scam with alleged cryptocurrency, warned the Computer Crime and Digital Forensics Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of North Macedonia through a press statement. Scammers target Macedonian internet users via the social networks or via e-mail in order to lure them to a fake web page that promises easy...

Ukrainians will head for the polls on Sunday 31 March in what will be the first regular national elections since the country's 2014 Euromaidan revolution. With its Crimean peninsula still occupied by Russian forces, an ongoing military conflict in eastern Ukraine, and rising activity of far-right groups, the country is a prime target for both domestic and external information influence operations. Ukraine has been...

Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned US President Barack Obama. The two presidents discussed the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, the situation in Syria, as well as the need to deal with members of the Islamic state. President Obama stressed the need to maintain the truce in Ukraine. Otherwise, since February, this is the first phone conversation between the two presidents.

The start of negotiations between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and president of SDSM Zoran Zaev opened the dilemma whether Macedonia would be assisted with forming an international advisory panel (IAP) following the example of Ukraine. Such a possibility was yesterday announced by diplomatic sources close to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland. International Advisory Panel was constituted...

After the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, should go to Macedonia because of the political crisis, Jagland in Brussels made a short statement, saying that Macedonia "should have a strong and impartial investigation into the allegations regarding the wiretapped conversations to restore confidence, "adding that the Council...

Ukraine is a fictional country, just like Macedonia, stated Bulgarian historian Dimitrov for Bulgarian National Television. - In 1954, a drunkard gave away the Crimea, Russian territory, along with its Russian population, to a fictional country, to a "Macedonia". Russian Macedonia – that is Ukraine. Fictional border - such as the borders of Macedonia. When the political elite creates such...

French and German diplomats are actively preparing summit in Minsk with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, hoping to end the bloody conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Diplomats from France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia today in Berlin are working on a peace plan, which is presented as the last chance for Ukraine before the summit in Minsk on Wednesday. Preparations for the...