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TASS
Russian state-owned media outlet
“The defendants were members of the Set’ (Network) radical group, created in 2016 and later included into Russia’s federal list of terrorist organizations.”
Read more...A TASS story on sentences handed down to seven men accused of being in the Set terror group left out key details, including the defendants’ claim of being tortured to confess and the lack of proof that Set even exists. -
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RT (Russia Today)
Russian state-owned media outlet
“John Taylor Holmes, a retired major general who served as a director of special forces, was on a panel of experts which heard testimony from one of the whistleblowers, identified as ‘Alex.’ ”
Read more...Holmes is a director of the British Syrian Society, founded in 2003 by the father-in-law of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. The society exists to promote Syrian-U.K. ties. -
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Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi
Iranian Minister for Information and Communications Technology
“Space suit. #BrightFuture”
Read more...The “space suit” is in fact a children’s costume with its original patches removed. -
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Margarita Simonyan
Chief Editor, Rossiya Segodnya
“Sputnik Belarus in January had 10 million unique visitors, with the country’s population of 9.5 million. That is more than Radio Svoboda, the Polish BelSat and other foreign media in the country have, combined. I am proud!”
Read more...Market intelligence data show that unique visitors to Sputnik Belarus were only about half what Simonyan claimed. In addition, most of Sputnik.by’s audience using desktop computers is in Russia, not Belarus. -
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Hulusi Akar
Turkish Defense Minister
“Turkey struck over 50 targets in retaliation and killed 76 Syrian soldiers.”
Read more...Turkey’s attack was reported, but the casualty numbers may be excessive. An earlier claim by Turkey’s president put the deaths at nearly half the number later claimed by the defense minister. Monitors who track regime losses haven’t yet seen evidence for so many casualties. -
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VeteransToday.com
“It has been reported that Mike de Andrea [sic] responsible for the assassination of the martyr Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in the accident of the American plane that was shot down in Afghanistan. He is the most prominent figure of the CIA intelligence in the region.”
Read more...The Pentagon retrieved the remains of the two officers killed in the Jan. 27 crash. Neither was CIA Iran chief Michael D’Andrea. Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. all said the plane was not shot down. -
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First Transnistria
TV channel of unrecognized Transnistrian Republic in Moldova
“Transnistrians will not be able to cross the Moldovan-Ukrainian border by car.”
Read more...Moldova temporarily banned cars with unrecognized license plates from Transnistria from entering Ukraine. But not all cars – those with special “neutral” plates aren’t affected. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“She – thank God, it is very good for her – did not even cross the Russian border.”
Read more...Putin pardoned Naama Issachar from drug-smuggling charges using her lawyers’ own argument: Though arrested at the Moscow airport, she never set foot in Russia. “It is very good for her,” Putin said.
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