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The Association of Ukrainians in the Republic of North Macedonia “Lesya Ukrainka” today addressed the Macedonian leadership with a request to take all possible measures to show the unity of North Macedonia with the Ukrainian people and to support the right of each nation to choose its own future and decide on their own destiny. “Ukraine is at the forefront...

We are reviewing incorrect content published above a photo of the president of VMRO NP and former Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski. He told “Truthmeter” that it was a matter of total disinformation, adding that he has not made any statement on any topic for two months. This is satirical news, but in the Facebook post it is not mentioned...

In front of more than two hundred journalists from around the world, Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs, Dmytro Kuleba held a press conference in order, as he said, to answer three big questions: How the escalation with Russia did happen, what's going on now, and what can be done, Truthmeter.mk writes. Kuleba referred to the events of 2014 when Crimea...

The ambassador of Ukraine to North Macedonia, Natalia Zadorozhniuk in the panel discussion "The Russian-Ukrainian Crisis and North Macedonia" organized by CIVIL, which took place on the 9th of February, said that Ukraine expects clear and unambiguous political support from its friend North Macedonia in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but also that North Macedonia should join the...

International security and military issues tend to attract a great deal of interest from readers, which often causes certain events or statements to be taken out of context, and to be colored in sensationalist colors. In this way, the more people click on the link, the more the advertising and profits of the people who abuse the media space...

The Russian Federation Embassies in Skopje and Sofia sent parallel congratulations to the Macedonian and Bulgarian citizens. In N. Macedonia the Embassy congratulated the birth of the revolutionary Goce Delchev, and in Bulgaria, it congratulated the birthday of Nikolai Ignatyev, the signatory of the San Stefano Agreement for the formation of a Greater Bulgaria, which includes the borders of...

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...

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...

The security of the Western Balkans and the escalation of the situation on the border between Russia and Ukraine were the main topics of the meeting of Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, Meta.mk reports   Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski said the country as a NATO ally, joins calls on Russia to de-escalate and resume...

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...

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,...

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 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...

Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the closure of the “Memorial”, the country’s most prominent human rights group, which dealt with the Stalin-era purges, symbolizing post-Soviet democratization, Euroactiv reports, according to Portalb.mk.   The verdict against “Memorial” comes a year after Russian authorities arrested President Vladimir Putin’s main critic, Alexei Navalny, in a historic blow to human rights groups and independent media. Last...

Russian authorities have banned the broadcasting of programs by the German media corporation Deutsche Welle in the country, they closed their offices while the journalists' accreditations for working in Russia were canceled. The decision arrived only two days after Germany canceled the license for satellite broadcasting of the Russian state television channel "Russia Today" (RT) on the territory of...

North Macedonia’s President, Stevo Pendarovski, said yesterday that after the referendum and the change of the name of the country, the anti-Western propaganda has increased. Pendarovski said that there is propaganda that claims “you do not need NATO and the European Union”, but that the country has strengthened its capacity to combat such propaganda and that it has the...