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Sputnik's press service
Russian state-funded news agency
"The decision is clearly political in its nature and, as a matter of fact, is practically censorship — seven [Facebook] pages belonging to our news hubs in neighboring countries have been blocked.”
Read more...Sputnik cried “censorship” after Facebook removed 364 Facebook pages and accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” But while Sputnik charged the pages were removed for their politically-motivated content, Facebook says it was a matter of “misrepresentations of their identities.” -
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"We do know that [the president’s right to determine and pursue foreign policy] has been coming under attack from the Congress. The issue is covered extensively. However, this does not make these attacks constitutional, and it does not make them less illegal either.”
Read more...Russia’s foreign minister claimed the U.S. Congress is unconstitutionally attacking Trump’s right to conduct foreign policy. The facts, and a bevy of constitutional experts prove him wrong. -
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Sergei Nosov
Governor of Russia's Magadan region
“I note that we’ve never, even in the days of tsarist Russia, killed people for dissent. This, by the way, is the great strength of our people.”
Read more...Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union have persecuted dissidents, sometimes using capital punishment. Modern Russia has abolished the death penalty, although a number of dissidents and journalists have been murdered, their cases remaining unsolved. -
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RT Russian Service
State-owned media outlet
“In December 2018, in the Odessa region, unknown persons organized a pogrom at a church in the village of Semenovka, Belgorod-Dniester district. The attackers stole donations and desecrated the church premises.”
Read more...The incident in the Odessa region was totally unrelated to the fire in Kyiv, and it was an act of vandalism.” No motive has been established. In Kyiv, police detained a 24-year-old homeless man who is accused of setting fire to some mattresses. -
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Alvi Karimov
Press Secretary for Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov
“This is an absolute lie, without a grain of truth, not a single percent of reality. There were not and could not have been any detentions on the grounds of sexual orientation during this period in the Chechen Republic.”
Read more...The New Year has brought fresh claims of LGBTI detentions in Chechnya, which local authorities have denied. But there is a lack of transparency in a country that allows no independent media, where independent investigations are stifled -- hindering efforts to determine what is happening. -
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Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian businessman
“The press service also noted that in the trial against ‘Concord Management and Consulting,' special prosecutor Robert Mueller 'supposedly collected more than four million documents, which is more than 12 million printed pages, over 80% of which the defense is forbidden to familiarize itself with.'"
Read more...After his lawyer’s testy exchange with the judge presiding over the 2016 election meddling case against Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting, company head and “Putin’s chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin misleads, accusing U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller of withholding evidence from the defense. -
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Promobot
Russian tech company
"An unmanned Tesla Model S destroyed an autonomous Promobot model v.4 in Las Vegas, USA. The Promobot cannot be repaired.”
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Leonid Slutsky
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma
“It’s a provocation, specifically to coerce the Russian delegation to slam the door and pull out of PACE.”
Read more...The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly's letter sent to Russia and all other member states proved Slutsky’s claim was false. The letter said all PACE delegations should include at least “one member of the under-represented sex appointed as a representative.”
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