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During the discussion on the program “Top Tema” on the TV channel Telma, immediately after the end of the ministerial meeting of the EU member states in Luxemburg, where the issue of starting the negotiations with our country was postponed…

There isn’t a single nation that can be characterized as “wild animals”. There is no such nation, a nation “without an identity” or a “heartless nation”. Stereotypes, insults and chauvinist statements! And to this instance of hate speech,…

President Ivanov justifies his failure to sign decrees making the already passed laws official with the oath of office he took. He says the oath back then stated he would defend the interests and the Constitution of the Republic of…

Regardless of the proposals for full or partial amnesty, on 27 April last year doors of the Parliament were opened, blood was shed and there were masked people giving orders… In fact, legal experts numbered 28 crimes back then.

Perhaps Gruevski doesn’t know what the Macedonian cause really is. Perhaps he has a different opinion on what it should be, that’s why he gave names like “Todor Aleksandrov” and “Thessaloniki Congress” to parking garages… But one thing is…

The Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski cannot clear himself or the executive branch of power from the responsibility over the second escape of persons indicted by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) or convicted. This has been…

The referendum was consultative and the only definite fact is more than 600 thousand that voted “for”. The MPs, on the other hand, by the Constitution have the right to decide whether they will pay heed to the ones who voted, the ones who…

Offering a way out of the crisis by substituting the SPO with another objective prosecutor’s office for prosecuting organized crime and corruption is a sheer truth spinning. With this offer, Mickoski has de facto confirmed that amnesty is…

Citizens’ sovereignty is best demonstrated by their participation in a referendum, as the most direct demonstration of their sovereignty in their own country. It precedes the indirect form - transfering their sovereignty onto the MPs.…

If you read Hristijan Mickoski’s entire speech, and furthermore analyze his previous speeches and addresses on this matter, it becomes clear that the public is presented with a great deal of feigned explanations that the Agreement…

Parliament’s decision to reduce the reimbursement for MPs’ travel expenses and the previous amendment of the law are sheer cover-up – an amendment without an essence, which will result in further hefty and unrealistic Budget money drain…

Part of the annual address of the President of the Republic of Macedonia was devoted to the “fake news”. Are the euphoric statements of Gjorge Ivanov, PhD, against fake news weighable? Are President Ivanov’s statements based on facts or are…

Two fat spins were made by Ivanov on the Parliament floor in his annual address – that the UBK has been the generator of all the crises in Macedonia and that the fake news require the introduction of new laws, monitoring, fines...

These 10 "todoraleksandrov-esque” epistles to Hristijan Mickoski are just the last one out of the plethora of spins made by Nikola Gruevski, most of which have been covered by Truthmeter. Therefore, we assess his commitment that he won’t…

VMRO-DPMNE’s leader, Nikola Gruevski, has announced that he shall open at least 150.000 new workplaces in the next decade. Aiming to persuade the citizens that he is qualified and capable to fulfil this promise, Gruevski stresses that…

Првите луѓе на локалната самоуправа, може биле и способни и посветени на работата и на своите грѓани, но никако не биле супермени кои реализирале проекти на секои неколку дена. Тоа, едноставно, е физички невозможно

The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE blames that the government led by SDSM prepares a legal framework which will make Macedonia shelter for huge number of refugees and migrants and all of that would put enormous financial and demographic…

We are not “being denied the right to prosperity because of our Macedonian identity” as President Gjorge Ivanov spins in his Ilinden speech, instead we are left behind in the “Balkan waiting room” because of the previous government’s…