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Disinformation claiming that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been living lavishly is once again circulating in the region. This time, he “purchased” an opulent villa with a winery and a vineyard belonging to the English…

The Coca-Cola Company applied to the Russian Patent Service to reregister: Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and some other of its trademarks, which was incorrectly interpreted by some media as the company's official return to the Russian market.…

A Facebook post, responding negatively to the fact that Ukraine and Moldova received recommendations for starting EU accession talks, expresses mixed: personal opinions, which the author is fully entitled to express; some undisputable…

The claim that NATO and Germany are deploying 90 thousand troops to the Ukranian front against Russia is false. The issue at hand is actually the largest NATO military drill, which began in January 2024 and concluded in May 2024. The video…

The construction of the regional landfill has been going on for ten years. The process is long and constantly exceeds the amount of misinformation, which is why it is created in the public, especially among the residents of Saint Nikole and…

Two leitmotivs were part of most analyses and articles related to the elections in North Macedonia, seen through the prism of pro-Russian Sputnik. The first is that foreigners are pressing North Macedonia, and the second is that the…

The passing of the bill on American aid for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel, first in the House of Representatives and then in the United States Senate, was the main motive for Moscow’s response to the old disinformation narratives. This event,…

Claiming that North Macedonia is not a sovereign state because it is a NATO member is, to say the least, nonsense. The sovereignty of a given state does not depend on membership in unions. In fact, if this claim was true, then would other…

The militant group Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow. On the day of the attack - 23 March – ISIS published a photograph of four attackers. On 24 March, however, ISIS released a video of the attack at the…

A high 72 percent of the Ukrainians are declared Orthodox Christians, 54 percent support the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 14 percent identify themselves as Orthodox Christians without specifying the church they belong to,…

France never adopted any Resolution to stop the EU enlargement process. This is fake news, presented as though it were true, allegedly published by the BBC. Neither did the BBC, nor any other relevant media publish such news. Apart from…

Social network posts claim the alleged closeness of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005) with Russia. Although Kuchma tried to sustain normal relations with Russia, his foreign policy was far from being pro-Russian, especially…

The more believers praise the Russian Church, the greater its influence. Hypothetically, if the Russian Church is “saving our Church”, why wouldn’t the Russian state “save” our country from the bad West that wants to, allegedly, ruin…

In recent years, and especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Macedonia has been exposed to very strong Russian propaganda influence, supported by illegal flows of Russian money through political parties, societal groups, and…

And this job is not easy. There will always be those that consciously spread disinformation and will try to undermine your work. Of course, debates on the methodology of fact-checking or addressing possible mistakes are always welcomed. But…

The Kremlin's propaganda road is also open in Macedonia. Disinformation on topics that directly concern citizens and mainly originate from the Kremlin-owned propaganda media is mostly taken from Serbia or pro-Russian media, portals and…

If the pressure from Russia was not that obvious in the Macedonian case with the banned imports of apples from Prespa, the example of Ecuador was pretty straightforward. By skillfully manipulating the business sector, the pressure put on…