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Igor Nikulin
Russian biochemistry and military expert
“China is surrounded by American military labs, and there is a U.S. consulate in Wuhan, the staff of which could have delivered the dangerous cargo to the PRC.”
Read more...Russian domestic media outlets widely speculated that the United States might be behind the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. -
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Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud
Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister
“I think ‘absurd’ is exactly the right word. The idea that the crown prince would hack Jeff Bezos’ phone is absolutely silly.”
Read more...Saudi officials dismissed allegations that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s WhatsApp account was used to Jeff Bezos’ phone, but a forensic exam found “medium to high confidence” that the hack took place. -
Russian Politician Glosses Over History’s Complexity, Blames Poland for Nazi Death Camps on Its Soil
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Vyacheslav Volodin
Speaker of Russian State Duma
“Hundreds of extermination and death camps where Jews, Slavs, and prisoners of war of other nationalities were purposefully extinguished were located in Poland. This was largely facilitated by the pre-war atmosphere in Poland and the position of the leadership of this country, which fueled anti-Semitic sentiments in society, creating the ground for the subsequent genocide and the Holocaust. And for this, the current leadership of Poland must apologize to the Jews and the whole world.”
Read more...The German death camps in Poland during World War II were set up under Nazi leadership amid a brutal occupation; blaming Polish anti-Semitism for the camps is at best a gross oversimplification. -
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Aleksey Zhuravlyov
Duma Deputy
“I cannot rule out (the possibility of the use of climate weapons). America, which is using everything modern technology is capable of, can do this as well. But you can’t use climate weapons against, say, Russia; you can use it against the whole world, but we will suffer the most because of it.”
Read more...Looking to explain Russia’s warm winter, one Moscow lawmaker posits that U.S. “climate weapons” may be to blame. Only one problem: No such weapons exist. -
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Russian Foreign Ministry
We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.
Read more...Each year, the Russian Foreign Ministry issues an annual review. Polygraph.info fact-checks six of the false or misleading claims made about cybersecurity, Syria, the United States, Latin America and the INF treaty. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
Defense Ministry of Russia
"Therefore, on January 9, 2020, the U.S. Navy destroyer, which was on the left from the traffic lane of the Russian Navy ship sailing ahead, grossly violated the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea by maneuvering to cross its course.”
Read more...Video released by the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet appears to support the U.S. claim that a Russian ship “aggressively approached” the USS Farragut from behind and failed to heed blasts from the U.S. destroyer’s horn. -
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Isabel dos Santos
Billionaire émigré from Angola
“I am Russian by birth. … I did not restore my citizenship; I always kept it.”
Read more...Isabel dos Santos was born in 1973 to a Russian mother in Soviet Azerbaijan. Post-Soviet law mandates restoring citizenship in such cases. Dos Santos says she never did so, raising doubt about her status and claim. -
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Ahmad Hassoun
Grand Mufti of Syria
“You will be judged by God, then you will know what kind of a man he was. Haj Qassem Soleimani, he was a man who prayed all night and fasted all day. He only fights in a place where the enemies of God and humans are, he never lifted his hand against any Muslim, he never lifted a weapon in the face of any Muslim.”
Read more...As a general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Soleimani waged war against Muslims of various sects in several countries.
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