Photograph of a small girl close to her killed mother from the film ”Fortress of War” is being shared on several posts on Facebook and Twitter, related to the NATO-bombing of former Yugoslavia. The post falsely claims that the photograph…

“Not in the EU at any cost” especially due to “the tectonic geo-political changes“ and because of “the lost of integrity and sovereignty of the country” with all of the agreements achieved up to date. Those are the words of the Presidium…

A powerful earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale struck Southern Turkey early Monday morning. It caused extensive damage and killed thousands of people there, but also in neighbouring Syria. Soon after the earthquake, the social…

The result of the public-private partnership between the State Bulgarian University from Veliko Tarnovo “Ss. Ss. Cyril and Methodius” (VTU) and the Macedonian private International Slav University (MSU) is the offer of master studies for…

One place up - on 72nd place - out of 167 countries, yet still at the bottom of the list of countries with “flawed democracy”. This is the ranking of North Macedonia in the latest ”Democracy Index” for 2022, published annually by the…

The latest strain on the relations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria and the (in)visible Russian touch in the process of escalation of relations proved to be a dominant tendency of the disinformation spreading in the Macedonian (but also…

Extremely quickly Kremlin is expanding the circle of “Nazis”. First, it started with the Ukrainian authorities, and now continues with labelling the entire population and everyone supporting Ukraine. And while Ukraine proceeds with…

Although there are more variations of the topic related to where the Russian influence was greater in the latest escalations of the relations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria, more serious sources agree quite distinctively that it is…

Although the technique of running Macedonian politics on daily issues with Bulgaria is disputable, the reasons for the new obstructions are not in Skopje, as VMRO-DPMNE claims. Bulgaria has its own goals and wishes to accomplish them within…

Register of Russian spies in Europe published by Twitter, identifies 42 individuals acting in their own countries and being paid by the Russian Federation. This Register was established on the basis of the open data and information related…

Context is missing from this post. It is true that Melaniya Podolyak wrote the tweet, but later on the tweet was removed for abusing Twitter guidelines. Unlike the contents claimed in her post, her opinions tweeted are not related to her…

Speaking on two separate events in Saint Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed the main disinformation mantra spread by Moscow to justify its aggression on Ukraine that started on 24.02.2022: Ukrainians are to be blamed for…

The post is spreading arbitrary information about the helicopter accident in Brovary in the vicinity of Kyiv. Official data for the helicopter crashing is still not available. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, informed that an…

It is not true that on Davos meetings future wars, diseases and famine are discussed. The challenges faced by the World and current issues of global nature are discussed on the meetings of the World Economic Forum. The part of the post that…

The post claims that the reserves of the Central Bank of Russia increased by 5.5 billion Dollars within several days and that in the foreign currency reserve was 582 billion Dollars in January. What has been omitted in this post however, is…

The shared post on Facebook is manipulative and lacks context. It is true that the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested a 55-year-old woman suspected of false bomb reports, but that had nothing to do with the previously sent messages from…

According to many research projects and reports, Serbia is perceived as one of the most powerful allies of Russia on the Balkans, as a country with a large number of media under Russian influence/Russian ownership and a State with many…

Regardless of the shortcomings, the findings of public opinion surveys remain one of the most relevant arguments when opinions are expressed or when the orientation of the citizens is concerned. Several surveys lead to the conclusion that…