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The ties between Ohrid and Russia as old Slavic centers have been continuous through the centuries, but the Russian Orthodox Church does not seem to have any noticeable support for the Macedonian Orthodox Church. The Russian Orthodox Church protects the interests of the Serbian Church and does not recognize the Macedonian Orthodox Church, priests said, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating...

The political party “Levica” has used Kremlin terminology that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in fact a “special military operation”. This statement contains a spin, given that special operations are military activities carried out by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of action. Special operations may include reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, and...

Since the Russian-Ukrainian crisis started, a propaganda war started on social media in our country, full of hate speech and “cheering” for one of the warring parties. Certain political and media circles have for years been accustoming the citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia that hate speech is something “normal” and that calls for violence are a “normal” part...

The claim of the Russian ambassador to North Macedonia, Sergey Bazdnikin, that the Russian armed forces do not shell civilian buildings and that the footage from Mariupol is fake, seems strange and at least sounds unreasonable in a situation where numerous world and domestic media constantly publish footage of destroyed civilian buildings. It is not possible for all those...

The European Union has approved sanctions against the Kremlin deception weapons: Sputnik and RT. Their broadcasting activities were immediately suspended in the EU until the Kremlin stopped its aggression against Ukraine and until Russia stopped carrying out disinformation and information manipulation activities against the EU and its member states, writes EUvsDiSiNFO, reports Portalb.mk   These are immediate, purposeful and temporary measures taken...

In wars and conflicts, the use of disinformation is another tactic – not only the fighters on the ground are at war, but also the citizens and institutions that “place their truth” and thus think that they have said things as they are. However, citizens should always be skeptical, regardless of where that information comes from, said Marina Tuneva,...

One of the ways to insert influence, which is hard to notice ad become increasingly aggressive since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, is to compare, equate and justify the war, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:     Author: Mirjana Najcevska, PhD, an expert on the rule of law and human rights   Putin’s...

The director of the Metamorphosis Foundation, Bardhyl Jashari, in a statement for “Sloboden Pecat” stated that North Macedonia has very low media education, fertile ground for conspiracy theories, distrust in institutions, declining quality of journalism and many sources of disinformation as well as various actors, domestic and foreign, who use these to promote their agendas and to hinder positive...

On March 7, RNM Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani agreed with his Ukrainian colleague on TV21 that “Russian oil is the blood of Ukraine,” adding that “the purchase of Russian gas is financing the Russian army.” However, although he was informed about the exact day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ministry he heads, just one day before the...

The post by the WMC and Todor Petrov that the United States owns bio-labs in Ukraine, which has become very viral and popular on social media, especially on those channels where disinformation and speculation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are shared on a daily basis, is a classic spin attempt to defend Russian terror in Ukraine. This conspiracy...

Giovanni Kessler is an Italian prosecutor who worked in the office of famous Sicilian prosecutor Paolo Borsalino in 1995. In 1998-1999 he was appointed as Deputy Head of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Pristina, in charge of Police and Justice matters. From 2001-2006 he was been elected in the Italian Parliament as an independent member. In 2003, the...

The use of Serbian and Yugoslav artworks intended for the big and small screen is one of the more shocking propaganda tricks in the parallel battle for Ukraine. The BBC opened the topic, Serbian media reported, followed by domestic media, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   According to our news source, the...

Engineered news is circulating on social networks and in some media after the invasion of Ukraine, which is done with a certain intention, to spread fog, said in an interview with Truthmeter academician Abdylmenaf Bexheti. According to him, the losses due to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis expressed in finance are minor, because alternative markets can be found for everything, but...

There is no official confirmation, from any country, of Putin’s state of health. The Kremlin has not commented on the Russian president’s health and has not responded to these latest allegations, which have emerged since the outbreak of the conflict. In this case, the Pentagon’s intelligence reports are used as a source of information, without any concrete evidence, writes...

There is no evidence that the Ukrainian government ordered the eradication of anthrax, cholera and other infectious diseases on the day Putin invaded Ukraine. It is also not true that there are US-funded biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. On the contrary, the laboratories that exist there are in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and are part...

The video is actually a clip from a movie shot in 2017, and not Ukrainian soldiers going to war. The video is from the movie “The War of Chimeras”. The film documents the story of a young couple during the battle of Ilovaysk, which took place in 2014 near Donetsk, Ukraine, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement between Truthmeter.mk and...

The day Russia launched a military aggression against Ukraine in order to occupy it, the portal Index, which operates in North Macedonia, published two video clips from an interview with the leader of the pro-Russian party in the country “United Macedonia”, Janko Bacev, in which he on behalf of the Macedonian people threatens that “Albanian politicians should not play...

Contrary to the absurd claim in the post that “the Russian army is destroying the global fascists and their henchmen”, in the war in Ukraine that Russia started on February 24, soldiers are suffering, but also innocent civilians, including many children. According to the Ukrainian authorities so far (02.03.2022) more than 2,000 civilians have been killed. The killing of...

The video shared in the post we are reviewing is not from a “mysterious pilot”, but is a sequence from a video game “Digital Combat Simulator World”. A spokesman for the publishing company told Reuters that the material was indeed from the video game, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the syndicating agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:   We are...

Consciously or not, pro-Russian propaganda about the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict is indirectly spread on social networks by certain people and sites. By not presenting all the facts, the language of hatred towards Ukraine spreads with claims that Ukraine, during the years 1998/99, sent mercenaries to kill the Albanian people in Kosovo, supported the bombing of the Albanians in Macedonia...