ESPIONAGE SCANDAL: As Russian-linked spy allegations shake North Macedonia, PM Mickoski attacks whistleblowers as “spy scum” and “rodents”
While the competent security institutions and the Prosecutor’s Office are conducting official...
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Mickoski’s policy toward the EU is not a mistake
The blockade of North Macedonia’s European path is not accidental. It is a systematic policy sold as dignity, but ending in isolation.
By Xhabir Deralla Several recent developments and statements reveal the main features of Prime...
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Missing from the “Point of No Return”: CIVIL demands answers from North Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria over Tribunal opt-out
SKOPJE, May 16, 2026 – As 36 nations and the European Union marked a historic “point of no...
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The Blood Brotherhood They Want the World to Forget
The Nazi–Soviet alliance was buried, tolerated, and weaponized – a hard look at how the Kremlin erased Stalin’s alliance with Hitler and how the West learned to live with the lie.
By Xhabir Deralla I grew up under the “soft” dictatorship of Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia. Soft, at...
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If it’s written in the Balkans, it is not less true
Notes from the Balkans
By Xhabir Deralla The Balkans are not behind the world. They are where the world arrives too late....
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Between Deception and War: How the Kremlin Turns Ceasefires and Peace into Weapons
From Lavrov’s denials in 2022 to today’s “pause for a parade,” diplomacy remains part of the Kremlin’s war strategy, not a path to peace
By Xhabir Deralla Russia’s proposal for a brief ceasefire around its 9 May military parade raises...
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It’s Not AI That Failed — It’s Control: A Lesson from Lost Data
From a single misjudgment to systemic risk: how one AI error exposes the dangers of power without control
By Vancho Ordanoski Chief Software Architect, Infoproject A company lost its entire database in a...
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The Illusion of Freedom
Beyond the Press Freedom Index and World Press Freedom Day: a firsthand account of how media freedom is suffocated in real time
By Xhabir Deralla What the 2026 Index by Reporters Without Borders ultimately reveals is not...
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CIVIL unveils the Kremlin’s “back-end” in North Macedonia: A new dossier on Russian hybrid operations
Following the path from denials to evidence: An investigation by CIVIL’s CHTM team reveals how a political actor in a NATO member state is instrumentalized to legitimize Russian occupations. Case study: Goran Dimov, the “denied” Senior Advisor of the political party Levica (The Left).
SKOPJE, 27 April 2026 — CIVIL MEDIA in Macedonian has released a comprehensive investigative...
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When a Referendum Becomes a Weapon: Slovenia and the NATO Question
By reopening NATO membership, Slovenia risks reinforcing the Kremlin’s narrative of pre-1997 “borders” and accelerating a new phase of hybrid warfare across Europe.
By Xhabir Deralla The first major signal of Zoran Stevanović as the new speaker of the Slovenian...
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INFOGRAPHIC | Key blocs and political rivals in Bulgaria’s election: Prospects for a government [UPDATED]
Rumen Radev’s ‘Progressive Bulgaria’ leads the polls, but a path to a stable 121-seat majority remains narrow and fraught with ideological rifts.
By Xhabir Deralla For latest results, go to: POST-ELECTION UPDATE 2: The End of the Deadlock at...
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(VIDEO) When Media Becomes a Battlefield: Dr Wolfgang Ressmann on Hybrid Warfare and the Hate-Less Project
A conversation on disinformation, polarization, and democratic resilience across Europe and the transatlantic space
Recorded on April 10, 2026—just two days ahead of Hungary’s pivotal elections, in which then–Prime...
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