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Mike Hughes
Chauffeur, daredevil stuntman, and flat-earth believer
“I don’t want to take anyone else’s word for it. I don’t know if the Earth is flat or round … I just couldn’t dismiss it (flat Earth theory) after four to five months researching this.”
Read more...The flat-earth conspiracy got to “Mad Mike” Hughes – so much so that he built a rocket to see for himself. It ended with his demise. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Spokesman
"This once again testifies to the fact that there are still a huge number of questions, and questions that most seriously cast doubt on such a biased position that has been repeatedly voiced (about the cause of the MH17 airliner crash) … This information once again testifies to the rightness of the Russian side.”
Read more...Newly leaked documents do not contradict anything presented by the Joint Investigative Team working on the MH17 case. If anything, they debunk several of Russia’s alternative explanations. -
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Olga Skabeyeva
Rossiya-1 talk show host
“Shame on the Ukrainian government. Shame! They need to get their people. Need to give maximum effort.”
Read more...The notion that Ukraine failed to quickly rescue citizens from the coronavirus epicenter in China fails to fully explain what happened. Ukrainians were evacuated on Feb. 18. -
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Aleksei Erkhov
Russian Ambassador to Turkey
“Here, the escalation in Syria. I agree: These are very painful events and troubled days. First the Russian officers were killed, then the Turkish servicemen. Here, right now, many accuse Russia and the Syrian ‘regime’ of all sins – supposedly they ‘violate’, attack, bomb civilian objects and so forth.”
Read more...The United Nations has said airstrikes and shelling by Syrian forces and their allies have killed at least 1,700 civilians in northwest Syria, mostly women and children, over the last nine months. -
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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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