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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“I’ve heard about some kind of a meat factory. Well, that is nonsense, simply ridiculous. The pipeline is ridiculous too … Well, it’s just nonsense to blame Russia for this.”
Read more...The notorious Russian-speaking REvil and DarkSide cybergangs made no secret of their ransomware exploits, which are tacitly tolerated by the Kremlin. -
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China Global Television Network
“Expert: Zero evidence that virus came out of a lab in China.”
Read more...Be it a lab leak or force of nature, the jury is still out on origins of the novel coronavirus. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“In general, the division into indigenous, first-class, second-class categories of people and so on – this, for sure, completely smacks of… the theory and practice of Nazi Germany. ... [T]o speak of Russians as a non-indigenous people is not just incorrect, it is ridiculous and stupid.”
Read more...A proposed Ukraine law would grant official status for three indigenous minority groups in Ukraine. -
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s prime minister
"We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy.”
Read more...The longtime prime minister faces ouster, but not because of election irregularities. A new governing coalition is forming to replace him. -
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BELTA
Belarusian state media outlet
“The pilot-in-command however decided to make a turn and head to Minsk. No one forced him to do this, no one gave him such a command. … He could have decided to keep going and left the Belarusian airspace within two minutes.”
Read more...The claim is contradicted by flight data, witnesses, and even earlier statements by Belarus government sources. -
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Xinhua news agency
"I saw heartbreaking scenes of people starving to death on the road before 1949.”
Read more...Yuan Longping on multiple accounts noted 1960, not 1949 as the time when starvation-related death inspired his groundbreaking work. -
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Ali Akbar Salehi
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
“Iran has so far done its utmost efforts to cooperate with the Agency substantively and provide the necessary clarifications and responses.”
Read more...A recent U.N. watchdog report cites evidence that Iran tried to clean up an undeclared nuclear site. European reports say Iran sought weapons tech. -
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian president
“+ 2.3 million [doses] of Pfizer in the beginning of June. Pfizer will arrive in all municipalities.”
Read more...The Brazilian government's pandemic fight has been tainted by mismanagement, negligence, delayed vaccines, ineffective COVID-19 treatments and a Senate investigation.
