Tag: prank
Macedonia 08.07.20 | 23:19

“Lately we change even our name because we intend to be modern country”

During his latest Russian prank call, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev boasts how he renamed Macedonia. We even changed the official name of the country, Zaev exclaims at one point, and sensing an interesting story, the prankster begins pushing Zaev toward accepting migrants in Macedonia. – Thank you Greta,...
Macedonia 08.07.20 | 22:59

Zaev’s office tried to present the Russian prank as a “hybrid attack”

Last November, when Greta Thunberg revealed that someone is impersonating her and is calling foreign leaders, actors and artists, the Zaev office was quick to respond that they were the victims of a “hybrid attack”. Zaev’s PR adviser Marjan Zabrcanec sought to intercept the damage of...
Macedonia 08.07.20 | 21:40

Pranked again: Russians duped Zaev into a conversation with “Greta Thunberg”

Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus published a new audio of Zoran Zaev. This time they duped the SDSM party leader into thinking that he’s talking to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. During the eight minute audio, which was animated to show Zaev taking the call with his spokesmen, he agrees...
Macedonia 22.09.19 | 11:20

SDSM is synonym for corruption: From nepotism, through crime, the embarrassing prank to “Racket”

Zoran Zaev and SDSM are a synonym for crime and corruption. The SDSM government has not done anything for the citizens for three years, only commits crime, VMRO-DPMNE said. The nepotism epidemic was one of the first scandals to shake the public that exposed the criminogenic face of the government. Relatives...
Balkans 15.07.19 | 10:03

Vucic to Zaev: Greetings comrade …

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, speaking on TV Pink on Sunday evening, among other topics, also referred to the last communication between him and the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in relation to the case with the Russian pranksters. According to Vucic, Zaev apologized after the media published...
Macedonia 14.07.19 | 10:18

RTS “Oko magazin”: Zoran Zaev – fake conversations about real politics

The “Oko magazin” show broadcast on RTS ever working day at 18.25h, analyzed the conversations between Zoran Zaev and the Russians. The show addresses the most current political topics, foreign policy topis, economic topics and social issues. The most interesting stories of culture and the...
Macedonia 12.07.19 | 16:51

Ukrainian Ambassador: We learned about Zaev’s conversations with “Poroshenko” from the papers

Ukrainian Ambassador to Macedonia, Natalia Zadorozhnyuk, said Friday that they were not informed about Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s communication with Russian comedians who posed as former President Petro Poroshenko. I am in the Republic of North Macedonia, I read the papers, and like everyone I...
Macedonia 12.07.19 | 11:07

Sekerinska qualifies Zaev’s prank call indiscretions as hybrid warfare

Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska warned that Macedonia can face cyber attacks, as she was asked by the press about the Vovan and Lexus prank scandal involving Zoran Zaev. Sekerinska qualified the prank calls as cyber attacks and part of hybrid warfare against Macedonia’s NATO accession prospects....
Macedonia 11.07.19 | 14:11

These fake performances are private arrangements, not act of Russian Federation

We are friends with Russia despite their opposition to becoming a NATO member, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said, who together with Russian Ambassador Sergey Bazdnikin attended the opening of a new Lukoil gas station in the Singelic settlement. Zaev said he will meet him as part of their regular communication,...
Macedonia 11.07.19 | 09:47

Milososki: MoFA has no minutes of the conversations between Zaev and “Poroshenko”

MP Antonio Milososki has learned from his own sources that there are no archived minutes of the conversations between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the fake Petro Poroshenko and the fake Stoltenberg, as the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev claimed at an extraordinary press conference held on July 9. According...
Balkans 10.07.19 | 23:05

Haradinaj reacts to Zaev talking about Kosovo’s partition with Russian comedians

After last night’s statement by his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev, Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj reacted that the idea of exchanging territories was still at the table and that Russia and Turkey are behind it, Kosovo’s “Gazeta Express” reports. Kosovo Prime Minister...
Macedonia 10.07.19 | 18:08

Zaev: I will continue direct communication with presidents and prime ministers

I will continue direct communication with presidents and prime ministers. I’m a straightforward man and I have no intention of going through some protocol next time I call Borisov or any other prime minister or president, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday. He pointed out that “North...
Macedonia 09.07.19 | 23:03

“Klan” interviews Russian pranksters: Zaev did things that we did not ask

Klan Macedonia Television journalist Furkan Saliu interviewed one of the Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus, or Alexey Stolyarov. In the interview, Stolyarov recounts a number of interesting facts related to the mega-scandal that shook the Macedonian political scene, as well as the entire Macedonian...
Macedonia 09.07.19 | 15:59

Zaev realized he is being pranked only yesterday

An especially shocking revelation made at Zoran Zaev’s press conference today was that he had no idea that what he believed are his three conversations with Petro Porosenko were in fact Russian pranks until yesterday. The apparent lack of follow up to the conversations with what Zaev believed is...
Macedonia 09.07.19 | 10:49

Milososki to Zaev: How do you get pranked three times!?

Former Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki called on Zoran Zaev to resign in light of the prank call scandal where he discussed with a Russian comic thinking he is the Ukrainian President Petro Porosenko not once but three times. Milososki also called on Zaev to dismiss his Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov...

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