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Anna Kuznetsova
Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation
“26,000 'non-answers' came from the American side. Maybe our children live wonderfully over there, but we do not know about that. The American side is absolutely closed for conversations right now!”
Read more...Russia unilaterally terminated the adoption cooperation agreement with the U.S. two months after it went into effect. -
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Russian newspaper
“PACE flipped off Ukraine and initiated the lifting of sanctions against Russia”
Read more...Russian media portrayed the resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council (PACE) on October 12 as the “lifting of sanctions.” While the sanctions they were referring to are the sweeping political and economic restrictions that nearly 50 nations have imposed on Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the resolution simply lays the groundwork for restoring Russia’s status within PACE, and does not affect any other sanctions. -
Russian Embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea
“[North Korea] respects the outcome of the referendum held in Crimea on the entry of the peninsula into the Russian Federation, considers its results to be legitimate and fully compliant with international legal norms.”
Read more...While North Korea, Russia, and nine other countries voted against the UN resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity, 100 countries denounced Russia’s annexation of Crimea as illegal. -
Margarita Simonyan
RT Editor-in-Chief
"To date, we have not experienced such active pressure and literally an expulsion from the country, as we do in the United States."
Read more...FARA registration does not ban, limit or censor media content; it merely requires transparency and public disclosure. It is false to assert that RT is facing exceptional pressure in the U.S., since multiple nations have probed RT for breaking journalistic codes and standards, and some have even banned it. -
Frants Klintsevich
First deputy chairman of the defense and security committee of the Russian Federation Council
“The U.S. has a direct interest in destabilizing the situation in Central Asia, including by using IS… The Americans believe that this will allow them to unravel the situation in Russia.”
Read more...The U.S. is fighting against Islamic State, not using it. Washington is also cooperating with Central Asian states to enhance security for the region -- including Russia -- despite Moscow’s objection to such security cooperation and its destabilizing military actions along its own periphery. -
Ministry of Defense
Russia
“[A]ll the targets were located out of settlements and in a safe distance from strongholds of the US SOF and Syrian Democratic Forces in the ISIS-controlled territories.”
Read more...The Russian Defense Ministry’s statement consists of several false claims while also revealing that the Kremlin was less than truthful in claiming that Russia does not have troops on the ground in Syria. -
Arno Khidirbegishvili
Editor-in-chief, Sakinformi news agency
U.S. Ambassador forced Prime Minister to refuse Russia’s assistance and in exchange gave [him] 500 pairs of cheap boots.
Read more...U.S. Ambassador never requested from Georgia to refuse Russia's help and Georgian officials say the embassy's help was "immediate"and "comprehensive." -
Yuri Podoliaka
Contributor to Voyennoye Obozreniye
“Today, Washington is losing allies even faster than the USSR did during its period of decline. Old and experienced [U.S.] partners are turning in the direction of Russia and China, and many are simply waiting for the right moment to escape the sinking ship of American ‘democracy’."
Read more...The U.S. continues to retain and support its allies while enjoying their backing and cultivating new partners, including those that have or are turning away from Russia. -
Aleksey Pushkov
Chairman of the Commission on Information Policy in Russia’s Federation Council
“There is no basis for the deployment of peacekeepers on the border between the DNR/LNR and Russia. It is a zone of peace and tranquility. So let them deal with the zone of tension.”
Read more...The Russian authorities’ insistence that the mandate of UN peacekeepers in Ukraine should be limited to the area along the “borders” between Ukraine and the conflict zone in the eastern part of the country is based on their claim that the region is a “zone of peace and tranquility.” That claim is neither true nor logical. Eastern Ukraine remains a war zone and the only internationally recognized borders are those between Ukraine and Russia. -
Margarita Simonyan and RT
RT's chief editor
“The American establishment’s war against our journalists is dedicated to all the starry-eyed who still believed in freedom of speech. It was killed by those who invented it."
Read more...The U.S. probe of RT and Sputnik to determine whether they must register as foreign agents is a lawful process befitting a functioning democracy. As registered foreign agents, the outlets would still be able to broadcast without censorship – a right protected under the U.S. Constitution and laws.