19 January 2024
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warned that the war between Russia and Ukraine could expand beyond the neighbouring countries, publishes dpa news agency. “We hear threats from the Kremlin almost every day – most recently again against our friends in the Baltic states,” Pistorius told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in an article published on Friday. With […]
14 December 2023
Photo: A screenshot of the video The video of the arrival ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin organized by the United Arab Emirates was published by several global media, such as Telegraph, Sky News, France 24, and CNN, which tells that the broadcast of the video was not banned, as the post we are fact-checking […]
8 October 2023
The two contexts of Biden and Putin’s meetings with children are different. In Putin’s case, one can see that the interview and meeting were previously organized since the cameras on the video are already positioned and he is acting in accordance with the set situation. Biden’s video, on the other hand, is spontaneous, made with […]
21 September 2023
The fact that Putin sent a request for NATO not to expand – which was rejected – and such a draft agreement was never signed by NATO, does not shift the military responsibility onto NATO. Stoltenberg, unlike the contents of the post, does not recognize the fact that NATO could have prevented the war provided […]
18 August 2023
A high 72 percent of the Ukrainians declare themselves Orthodox Christians. Therefore, Orthodox Christianity is predominant in Ukraine and it is not logical to bring something back when it is already there. In addition, the post manipulates by claiming that peace in Ukraine depends on religion, although religion is a stumbling block when it comes […]
2 August 2023
The logo of the Rainforest Alliance is not the golden poison frog, but the red-eyed tree frog. The frog on the logo has a symbolic meaning of a bioindicator of healthy environment and has nothing to do with the “golden billion” – an old conspiracy theory, according to which the global elites seek to hoard […]
27 May 2023
Photo: Screenshot from a manipulative video about Zelenskyy and the Azov Batallion As a guest in a morning show on a USA television, the famous controversial journalist Lara Logan presented loads of unfounded claims about the war in Ukraine and the Russian aggression that almost entirely overlapped with the Russian disinformation narratives about Ukraine and […]
10 May 2023
Massive salvo of Russian disinformation narratives was “fired” from the Red Square in Moscow directly from the mouth of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the speech delivered at the military parade on the occasion of celebrating 9th of May – Day of Victory over Fascism, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and […]
11 April 2023
Photo: kremlin.ru The post is a manipulative disinformation claiming that Russia does not deny Ukrainian identity, but is defending the Russian minority suffering genocide by some installed authorities. All of this is wrong and consistent with the Russian interpretation of things with which Putin justified his attack on Ukraine, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement […]
31 March 2023
The claims presented in the post that Putin is saving children from the “pedophile clutches of the west”, are pure fabrication and conspiracy theory without evidence or facts. The Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin for committing war crimes with the deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories in Russia. […]
30 March 2023
Apart from the fact that such a submissive gesture would be extremely unrealistic, the fact-check suggests that the photograph was generated with an artificial intelligence application (AI). Artificial intelligence apps can create photo-realistic pictures, full of details, difficult to distinguish from the real photos. Nevertheless, they regularly produce photographs with errors – the hands and […]
28 March 2023
Photo: Seat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague Photo: en.wikipedia.org No information was published by any media outlet about the alleged death of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Karim Khan, nor did the International Criminal Court publish anything of the kind. If this were true, such a piece of information would not have […]
3 March 2023
The main disinformation narrative in February in the Macedonian media space was proclaimed by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, just three days before marking the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He reversed the “mirror” and de facto said that Russia had to intervene with military force in Ukraine to defend […]
31 August 2022
Serbian political analyst Dušan Janjić said that since the members of the Night Wolves Motorcycle club have led the litany and protest in Belgrade against the EuroPride, it is evident to him that the Russian military intelligence service was its background organizer, informs the Danas daily newspaper. Janjić commented on the Serbian Prva TV the […]
27 April 2022
Andrey Zakharov is an investigative journalist from the Russian service of BBC. He moved from Russia in November last year, when he was being designated as foreign agent in Russia, as many other journalists. He is currently living in one European country. In an interview for Truthmeter, he speaks about the Russian propaganda and the […]
17 August 2020
When the social networks and the chat services were flooded with videos containing military transporters and buses full of soldiers, claiming this is the Russian army that has either entered Belarus or “are about to enter” Belarus, the fact-checkers from Belarus have quickly debunked these claims as disinformation. As was stressed by Franak Viačorka, an […]
12 April 2019
One method for spreading Russian influence in the Balkans is through alternative medicine magazines. While the newspaper industry in all Balkan countries is in steep decline, numbers of magazines with titles like “Russian Doctor,” “Russian Herbalist,” “Russian Encyclopedia of Health” had been increasing since 2015. At least half dozens of them originate in Serbia and […]
28 February 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to do everything to punish those who organized and carried out, as he said, the cynical and cowardly murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. This was written in a telegram that Putin sent to Nemtsov’s mother, which was published on the official website of the Kremlin. “Dear Dina Jakovlevna, […]
28 February 2015
The leader of the opposition Russian movement “Movement of Solidarity”, Boris Nemtsov, was killed yesterday in the center of Moscow. Cause of death was a great internal bleeding, which was caused by four bullets fired at him from a moving car. He was hit in the head, heart, liver and stomach. At the time of […]
20 February 2015
“Turkish stream” could pass through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an interview with the Russian newspaper “Komersant”. Orban’s statement comes after a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on which it was discussed about energy and the replacement of the “South Stream”, project which collapsed due to […]
