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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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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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