Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Macedonia

More than 2,700 small hydroelectric plants are either planned or under construction in the region. Critics say governments aren't properly assessing their impacts.

21 October 2019

Twitter users from North Macedonia fight disappointment with EU non-decision with humor

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Western Europe

The date for the long-anticipated start of negotiations for Albania and North Macedonia's membership in the EU didn't materialize, due in large part to a lack of support by France.

9 October 2019

The oligarchs are the main disinformation proxies in Bulgaria, says local expert

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Bulgaria

"Patterns of ownership, economic dependency and (in)formal political links of media outlets in the countries under investigation to pro-Russian groups are reflected into corresponding trends of employing Russia-originating propaganda narratives."

14 September 2019

New finance minister of North Macedonia faces sexist attacks online

Written by Pavlina Simonoska Arsikj · Citizen Media

The spokesperson of the main opposition party wrote a Facebook post about the new minster's appointment that was filled with misogynistic language.

6 September 2019

‘I want a chance to prove my innocence': Formerly jailed Macedonian journalist denied retrial

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Freedom of Speech

The case against investigative journalist Tomislav Kezarovski is considered an example of judicial corruption during the country’s democratic backsliding between 2006 and 2017.

16 August 2019

How Hungary-funded news sites helped a false story travel all the way from Slovenia through Greece to North Macedonia

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Western Europe

Fact-checkers in North Macedonia have traced the original source of the bribe article and uncovered a complex trail of disinformation spanning at least four countries.

8 August 2019

Dubious CIA plot theory by former Yugoslav army colonel finds a platform in Serbian media

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Serbia

“Fake news, fake media, fake journalists, fake analysts – they have flooded the Serbian media space.”

30 July 2019

Disappointment with the West is crucial for growth of pro-Russian narratives in the Balkans, says researcher

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Bosnia Herzegovina

"Although all countries in the region have been targets of pro-Russia disinformation efforts recently, there has been no recognition of this trend as a security issue at the political level"

26 July 2019

Poland's artistic and architectural contributions remembered in 2019 commemoration of the 1963 Skopje earthquake

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Poland

This year's annual commemorations of the earthquake include an exhibition in Poland of artworks sent to the city of Skopje by Polish artists in a show of solidarity.

25 July 2019

Media in North Macedonia claim a Russian band has plagiarized a song by Balkan superstar Toše Proeski

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Croatia

A series of online articles in North Macedonia have blamed the Russian rock group Zemlyane for plagiarizing a 2007 song made by authors from Croatia for the late Macedonian pop...

15 July 2019

The fight against disinformation in Bulgaria is almost nonexistent, says journalist Ivan Georgiev

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Bulgaria

"Bulgaria is a border state between the West and the East and it is seen as a weak spot on the European map by the Russian propaganda."

12 July 2019

Pseudoscientific racial theories by discredited British psychologist keep going viral in the Balkans

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation · Croatia

The cyclical spread of pseudoscientific notions about IQs based on race or ethnicity taps into pre-existing stereotypes as well as it reinforces them in this region.