Analysis

Тhe Russian Embassy in North Macedonia recently shared the documentary Donbas. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2021) on Facebook. The documentary uses a common manipulation technique - presenting the historical sequence of events in a way…

The Chinese influence in higher education in North Macedonia is focused primarily on a few state universities in the country, with ongoing cooperation throughout the years that resulted in an exchange of students and professors and by…

Photo: Screenshot from a manipulative video about Zelenskyy and the Azov Batallion As a guest in a morning show on a USA television, the famous controversial journalist Lara Logan presented loads of unfounded claims about the war in…

Russian propaganda uses various forms of social media and channels to spread its propaganda. It is fighting a war in Ukraine, but also waging a hybrid war with many other countries. North Macedonia and the Balkans are the target of this…

The photograph of the boy is nine years old and it was made at the International Tattoo Festival in Kyiv, that in 2014 had its 10th edition. According to the festival announcement, many tattoo lovers participated, not only from different…

David Plášek is the lead analyst of the Red Watch Program of the European Values think-tank from Prague. He is a PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague and one of the rare scientists studying Chinese propaganda in Europe. The Balkans…

“Eternal glory to the heroic fighters from the anti-Hitler’s coalition who defeated Nazism and freed the European nations!” This sentence has been inscribed on the monument behind the Universal Hall in the center of Skopje, which was…

In the draft text that is in the parliamentary procedure of first reading, there is an intervention in more than 1/3 of the existing articles in the current Law. An important novelty provided by the new legal text is the significant…

A 109-year-old cardiologist from Macedonia shares the secret of longevity and good health. Sounds interesting and enticing to read, doesn't it? What you need to know from the start that this doctor is fake, the medicine he offers is…

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…

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…

Author: Miroslava Burns On the portal "Lider" on 22 June at 12:15 pm, a text was published entitled "Publicly disclosed: These are the people who refuse to receive decrees for self-isolation." The headline and the…

  At a time when the coronavirus is a major concern in the world, the media must be especially cautious with republishing news related to this virus. Link to original article: (Видео) Пазарот на ужасот од кој почна…

Not a single major event in the world passes without Nostradamus and his predictions. Like many times before, the media succeeded in linking the coronavirus to Nostradamus, and the goal is one and only – to get as many clicks…

These past several days, a post is being shared on Facebook of a man holding medical masks allegedly selling them for 80 denars on a bus owned by the Skopje Public Transportation Enterprise. The underground has always been faster…

The portal “Kurir” has published a story about a resident of the Russian city of Ufa who killed an alleged pedophile, who in turn held two teenagers hostage. He became a hero of the day when he himself brought the…

This was just another stupid prank by the same Russian operatives targeting many US elected officials, including Adam Schiff, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, and international heads of state such as Emmanuel Macron.…

Ivanka Vasilevska, a member of VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee and a professor at the Law faculty in Skopje, attracted the attention these days with an interview she gave for the Serbian news portal “Stanje Stvari” provoking fierce…