(LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025) The voices of hate that humiliated democracy: Sexism, ethnic divisions and nationalism
Ahead of the Local Elections 2025, North Macedonia faced a serious wave of hate speech, ethnic and...
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Category: MONITORING
North Macedonia Local Elections 2025: Generally Peaceful Process Marked by Serious Systemic and Institutional Weaknesses — CIVIL’s Preliminary Assessment
CIVIL assesses that the 2025 Local Elections in North Macedonia were held without major incidents, yet burdened by deep structural, institutional, and political weaknesses that call into question the integrity of the electoral process and the democratic capacity of the institutions and society.
CIVIL presented its preliminary assessment of the second round and the overall conduct of the 2025...
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CIVIL’s third report: Over 230 reports from the ground, cases of limited voting rights and party pressures
Repeated incidents with people released from prison for the weekend, remarks about the secrecy of voting, inaccessible polling stations and presence of party observers with marks
At CIVIL’s third, one before the last online press conference, the following reports from the...
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CIVIL’s Second Report: Deceased Persons in the Voters Register, Violation of Voting Secrecy, Reports of Pressure, and Inaccessible Polling Stations
CIVIL’s second report at 3:00 p.m., reveals irregularities and problems on the ground, but also...
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Campaign silence widely breached; election day started calmly — CIVIL’s first report
The election silence in the country is being violated as if there is no legal ban on political...
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Nationalism, ethnic tensions and populism: The ethnic map has colored the race ahead of the second round
DEHRAN MURATOV Ahead of the second round of local elections in North Macedonia, there has been a...
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THE ENGINEERED DEADLOCK: Republika Srpska and the Politics of Paralysis
HYBRID WARFARE EARLY WARNING SPECIAL REPORT: Russia-Linked Hybrid Operations in Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2025)
This article is part of CIVIL’s Hybrid Warfare Early Warning Report Series, produced within the...
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Information Warfare and Propaganda Ecosystem in North Macedonia
SPECIAL SUB-REPORT OF THE HYBRID WARFARE EARLY WARNING REPORT SERIES
This Special Sub-Report, prepared by the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team in cooperation with...
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CIVIL Launches Early Warning Series on Russia’s Hybrid Operations Across North Macedonia, the Western Balkans, and Europe
CIVIL has launched a new Early Warning Series to monitor and analyze Russia’s ongoing hybrid...
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BATTLEFIELD OF NARRATIVES: Russia’s Hybrid Operations in North Macedonia
HYBRID WARFARE EARLY WARNING REPORT: Monitoring and Analysis of Russia-Linked Hybrid Operations in North Macedonia (2025)
This article is part of CIVIL’s Hybrid Warfare Early Warning Report Series, produced within the...
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The elections and the coalition: VLEN has rocked Mickoski’s boat
However, in the complex ethnic structure of the country, this is not at all naive – we have incompetent leaders in power who came to that position with heated nationalist slogans. Now they can only reap the fruits. It’s bad that the consequences are - general!
LJUBOMIR KOSTOVSKI The ruling coalition has no ideological affinities – they won votes in the...
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Russian influence on the 2025 local elections: Pro-Russian parties, financiers close to Moscow, Russian propaganda in the media
By Dragan Mishev In cooperation with the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team (CHTM) Translated...
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