Global Voices: Russian censors block website of legal aid non-profit OVD-Info
OVD-Info is a key human rights defense project in Russia
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…
Global Voices: Russia blocks access to Tor browser website
Russia has the second largest number of Tor users globally
The Clock Tower in Star Dojran Has Been Restored
Election promise: Restoration of the cultural and historical monuments Clock Tower and Turkish bath in Star Dojran
EXPLANATION:
One of the promises of the Mayor of Dojran, Ango Angov in the election campaign in 2017 was the…
There Are No Public Health Doctors That Work For a Salary of 250 Euros
We received confirmation from three sources that there is no doctor in North Macedonia who is paid a salary of 250 Euros. Salaries are much higher.
We are reviewing a post on Facebook in which a text is shared with the title…
The Promise of a New High School in the Municipality of Aerodrom Was Not Fulfilled
High school "Kuzman Josifovski Pitu" new high school in the city!
Quality education - construction of a high school - "Kuzman Josifovski - Pitu" (Deadline: 2018-2020)
EXPLANATION:
The promise of the mayors of Skopje and the…
International Human Rights Day and their importance in building the post-Covid-19 world
10 December 2020. Skopje - Today is 10 December, the International Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global document to articulate…
EEAS Conference: The EU must impose its role as a factor that is moving things forward
The EU, as a sovereign subject that has a strategic autonomy, has to impose its role as a factor that is moving things forward, both in the international relations and the solving of disputes. At the same time, the Union has to try to…
CRTA: Elections in Serbia with Minimum Standards, Democracy – Endangered (video)
According to the quality and the choice of election day, but above all according to the overall election process, Serbia's parliamentary elections in June are the worst elections that have been observed by the Serbian Center for Research,…
Inauthentic Facebook pages target North Macedonia
Coordinated and inauthentic subsets of Facebook pages amplified content published by different North Macedonian news sites
The DFRLab found dozens of Facebook pages linked to various North Macedonian news outlets that…
NED: The Struggle against racial segregation and discrimination in the US continues
The brutal killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis has provoked an outpouring of anger and rage that the United States has not seen since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. more than fifty years ago, notes …
North Macedonia presented as NATO’s weak link in a Foreign Policy article
The US-based Foreign Policy portal, which has been publishing the eponymous magazine for international politics since 1970, published an article entitled "NATO has a new weak link for Russia to exploit", whose main argument is that North…
Kremlin propagandist equalizes the European Union and Hitler’s Nazis
Serbian portals Informer and Espreso fully transmit the text of “Russian World” Fund Director Vyacheslav Nikonov, in which he expresses a revisionist view of the international and European history during World War II.
These two…
Russian religious texts about alleged prophecies disseminate panic over the new coronavirus
The religious beliefs of some Macedonian citizens are being used to disseminate panic and misinformation about the new coronavirus (designated by the World Health Organization - WHO as 2019-nCoV) by manipulatively citing Russian…
Sensationalistic spread of panic about the coronavirus
In the battle for greater readership, which is unfortunately still the primary, if not the only factor bringing money from online media advertising, one of the most prevalent phenomena is sensationalist writing, whether it is…
Putin Canceled South Stream, but Russian Newspaper Blames U.S.
Political cartoon by Pregrag Koraksić Corax on South Stream, December 3, 2014
ENERGY
September 03, 2019
Margarita Assenova
Vzglyad Business Newspaper
“Sofia, under pressure from the United States, has twice put an end…
Metamorphosis approach to fighting domestic and cross-border disinformation presented at POINT 8.0…
Sara Malosmani (Levizja MJAFT!, Albania), Ivana Markulic (Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability, Serbia), Blerina Ramaj (Open Data Kosovo), Mila Josifovska (Metamorphosis, North Macedonia), Milica Kovacevic (Center for…
Former Macedonian strongman’s escape to Hungary triggers a flood of disinformation
By publishing unconfirmed, unchecked and misleading information about former Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski's flight to Hungary to avoid a 2-year prison sentence, many Balkan media outlets have helped create confusion and…