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Tatiana Golikova
Russian Deputy Prime Minister
“We, as a country, do not have the worst indicators, but still there is a downward trend. It's disturbing. Currently, 14% of men and 26% of women in Russia are obese.”
Read more...The portion of the adult population suffering from obesity in Russia is 1.5 times higher than the world average but significantly lower compared to some G20 countries. -
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Patrick Lancaster
Patrick Lancaster, Video Blogger in Donbas
“If someone looks at a map of the areas that he’s put martial law in affect, these are all of the pro-Russian areas, the areas that either he did not vote in the 2014 election because they were part of their own new country, Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republic, or that Poroshenko lost.”
Read more...Donbas-based Video blogger Patrick Lancaster appeared on RT’s Going Underground TV show to argue that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko rolled out martial law in “the pro-Russian” regions that he lost in the 2014 elections. The facts show otherwise. -
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Dmitry Smirnov
Kremlin Special Correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper
“At the age of 94, George Bush Sr. died - the man who started the Gulf War, marking the beginning of the current chaos in the Middle East.
If we say nothing but good about the dead, about Bush Sr. say nothing.”
Read more...While many have criticized President George H.W. Bush for an inconclusive outcome of the Persian Gulf War, it is simplistic and misleading to attribute Middle Eastern conflicts, or “current chaos” to Bush’s actions in 1991. -
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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A screen capture of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Twitter page.
“We drew attention to information about the growing number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan as a result of the actions of foreign troops. A recent example is the airstrike by international forces in Garmsir district, Helmand province, which killed 23 civilians and injured 3 others. According to preliminary data, eight women and 10 children were among the victims.”
Read more...With U.S. Air Force statistics showing the U.S. has dropped more bombs on Afghanistan than at any point since 2006, the civilian causalty count from airstrikes is growing. But it remains unclear if the total number of civilians killed and injured by actions of international forces is rising. -
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Dmitry Kiselyov
Dmitry Kiselyov, CEO of Rossiya Segodnya and TV host
“It’s believed that rap as a culture came from Black America. We got it in the 1990s. That’s not entirely true, however. The precursor of the Russian rap poetic tradition was Vladimir Mayakovsky, of course.”
Read more...Russian hip-hop has two main sources, both Western: American rap and Jamaican Rastafarian music. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russian Federation
“Two little cutters that the United States gifted Ukraine didn’t pass through the Kerch Straight, and you want a nuclear submarine visiting our base?! A bad film.”
Read more...Vladimir Putin mocked the idea of a U.S. submarine visiting a Russian base like in the Hollywood film “Hunter Killer,” saying the recently seized Ukrainian ships “gifted by the U.S.” couldn't even traverse the Kerch Strait. But like the film, the claim those boats are from America is fiction. -
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Vadim Gorshenin
Russian journalist
“And, with reports that she will be granted American citizenship after months of torture in an American prison, I feel ashamed for my Fatherland.”
Read more...With a new court filing alluding to a possible plea deal, a Russian journalist has claimed without evidence that indicted Russian agent Maria Butina will be granted U.S. citizenship after being tortured in prison. But Butina’s solitary confinement does raise troubling questions. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Press Secretary
"I don’t know about any restrictions. On the contrary, we know that traffic through the Kerch Strait continues normally."
Read more...While Russian shipping seems unaffected, Ukraine reports that ships bound for its Sea of Azov ports are still being denied access through the Kerch Strait.
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