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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...
Lavrov wonders how Macedonia’s NATO membership has strengthened Alliance’s security
After Bulgaria and Romania, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday commented on Macedonia’s membership in NATO. Instead of “North Macedonia”, in the answers to the questions of the program “Weekly Time” on the state Russian television “First Channel”, he named the country as “Macedonia”.
Asked about NATO’s enlargement with new member states and whether it was possible to talk about...
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...
Orban to seek Russian gas in Moscow, Hungarian opposition demands no-escalation in Ukraine
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has scheduled an official visit to Moscow for 1 February, where he plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Radio Free Europe in Macedonian reports. The reason for the visit to Russia is the request of Hungary for additional quantities of natural gas.
In an interview with Hungarian media today, Orban said that at...
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,”...
Russian Embassy in Skopje responds to North Macedonia Minister of defense’s remarks
The Russian Embassy in Skopje yesterday issued its own comment on the statements of the Minister of Defense Slavjanka Petrovska. The embassy opposes the positions that North Macedonia is taking towards the developments in and around Ukraine.
They react after the minister’s interviews with “Telma” and “TV 24”, in which she noted that the country fully supports the efforts being...
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...
Counterspin: High gas import prices are not related to North Macedonia government”s negotiation capabilities
The claim of VMRO-DPMNE that the Government did not provide low gas prices, unlike “all governments in the region and the world” is a spin. The price of imported natural gas depends very little on the government’s negotiating capabilities, writes Truthmeter.mk.
We republish below Truthmeter's article under our syndication agreement:
Author: Goran Lefkov
The political party VMRO-DPMNE in a statement published on...
Russia labels six other Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty journalists as “Foreign agents”
Radio Free Europe (RFE) reports that six more of its journalists have been labeled “foreign agents” by the Russian Federation, launching 2022 with a total of 18 Russian journalists from the RFE / RL service labeled “foreign agents”. They face estimated fines of more than $ 13 million under Russian law on the issue.
RFE / RL say it is...
Following Eastern Europe, Russia is requesting withdrawal of NATO forces from Bulgaria and Romania
Russia’s request for the withdrawal of NATO forces (foreign troops, weapons and equipment) is not only for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe but for all countries that were not members of NATO in the period before 1997. The security guarantees that Russia is seeking from NATO also apply to Romania and Bulgaria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
Truthmeter.mk: Video from Russia, presented as if it were from Mount Athos, showing the Mother of God
Truthmeter.mk is reviewing a Facebook post, which says that an amazing video from Mount Athos shows the appearance of the Mother of God. According to the description in the text, the video was shot on Mount Athos and shows the appearance of the Most Holy Mother of God.
Meta.mk republishes this fact-checking article in its entirety below:
Around the figure that people...
Truthmeter.mk: Why the Russian Sputnik vaccine is not yet approved In Australia?
On the eve of the Australian Open tennis tournament, it became evident that some of the tennis players vaccinated with two doses of Sputnik vaccine, from the Russian manufacturer Gamaleya Research Institute, will not be able to participate in the tournament, because this vaccine is not approved in Australia, writes Truthmeter.mk
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Russian...
BEG wants to “central-heat” citizens of Skopje at 300% higher prices – and with Russian gas
Approximately 56 000 users connected to the central heating network in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, could get much higher bills from the 1st of January. Balkan Energy Group (BEG), the operator of the network, submitted request to Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission of North Macedonia (EWSRC) for 300% increase of the fees for its service.
Balkan Energy...
Truthmeter: Serbian authorities spy on visiting Russian citizens on behest of Kremlin
Backroom cooperation and ties between Serbia and Russia lead to spying on Russian opposition figures having a meeting in Belgrade. After the spy tapes were delivered to Kremlin an arest of Russian opposition leader takes place. Another story showing how far undemocratic regimes are willing to go to stay in power completely disregarding the rights of their citizens, writes...
Name board for city of Sevastopol removed from Russian-themed children playground in Skopje
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...
Global Voices: Russia blocks access to Tor browser website
Russian authorities blocked access to the Tor browser website, torproject.org, on Wednesday, 8 December, according to reports from Tor developers and users. The official block follows earlier reports of Russian internet service providers blocking access to the service, with some Russian users unable to access the Tor Project website since 1 December, writes "Global Voices". Meta.mk republishes the original article, under the...
2021 through the prism of Kremlin disinformation
The end of 2021 is approaching, but it seems that the pro-Kremlin disinformation will not end. Last year, EUvsDisinfo added 2,700 new examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation to its database. This is what they wrote:
Ukraine remains a major target of pro-Kremlin disinformation
About a third of all examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation in 2021 collected by EUvsDisinfo were aimed at Ukraine.
Amid escalating,...
