Владимир Путин

While the European Parliament condemned the meeting between Orban and Putin, it is not true that the EU demanded Orban to pay 2 million euros and that he did not have the money, so Putin and Xi Jinping offered to lend him the money as the…

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the elections brought to life an old Russian narrative, also present in neighboring Serbia as well as in our country as harmful foreign influence and that is that the Western leaders are weak and ephemeral, while…

A Facebook post attempts to debunk the Western narratives about Putin as illegitimate, by mixing evidence-based claims with unsupported assertions. For example, it is true that currently there are no big protests in Russia against Putin,…

On the 16th of April, the Kremlin published a report on a telephone conversation between President Vladimir Putin and the then-President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, regarding the conflict between Iran and Israel, claiming that the Russian…

There is no evidence that the author of the letter is Putin. No credible news has ever mentioned that, nor the website of the Kremlin that usually publishes the addresses and speeches of the Russian President. The letter in the Russian…

The prominent Russian opposition leader and critic of the government, Alexei Navalny, died under suspicious circumstances. In the absence of transparency surrounding his death, disinformation is spreading in the region claiming that he died…

The lie and propaganda platitude of Russian President Vladimir Putin was presented to justify the military invasion in Ukraine that he initiated on 24 February 2022, completely unprovoked. Many historians claim that the military aggression…

Not one relevant source even hints that Yulia Navalnaya has found a “new lover” following her husband’s death. The photograph showing Yulia Navalnaya on a beach with a man is from 2021. Using a reverse image search, we discovered that the…

The fake news started from ESSA News (Poland), spread through the Balkans, and finally arrived in North Macedonia

Several disinformation narratives have prevailed this year in the Macedonian-language online space and media - from Ukraine’s “statehood being at stake” should the war continue, to the claim that Zelenskyy has lost popularity. The most…

A post on a Russian blog which is someone’s personal opinion first made rounds in Bulgarian media and then in Macedonian media and social networks, with a special addition - a statement allegedly made by Putin regarding dividing Bulgaria.…

The video of the arrival ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin organized by the United Arab Emirates was published by several global media, such as Telegraph, Sky News, France 24, and CNN, which tells that the broadcast of the video…

The two contexts of Biden and Putin’s meetings with children are different. In Putin’s case, one can see that the interview and meeting were previously organized since the cameras on the video are already positioned and he is acting in…

Bush-Gorbachev, Helsinki 1990. Photo: Susan Biddle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons There is no treaty signed by the US, Europe, and Russia specifying that NATO will not enlarge. The idea of NATO expansion beyond Germany was not on…

Photo: Screenshot from a video The entire post is loaded with Russian narratives and manipulations aiming to spread propaganda and justify the Russian military aggression in Ukraine. Ukrainians are not brainwashed, as the post claims, and…

Photo: Rainforest Alliance The logo of the Rainforest Alliance is not the golden poison frog, but the red-eyed tree frog. The frog on the logo has a symbolic meaning of a bioindicator of a healthy environment and has nothing to do with the…

Photo: pixabay.com The post carries a false statement by Peskov disinforming that some kind of unification will happen between Russia and Belarus. Our check showed that neither Peskov made a statement claiming that Putin’s address from…

Photo: Clip from a Kremlin.ru video from the Victory Parade in Moscow on 09.05.2022 Victory Day - 9 May - was the occasion for the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to utter the main disinformation narrative in May, which was, of course,…