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Vladimir Solovyov
Russian TV talk show host
“It [the 2008 Russian-Georgian War] was an operation for the enforcement of peace.”
Read more...International organizations and Russia recognized the conflict in Georgia in 2008 as a war. -
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Margarita Simonyan
Editor-in-Chief, RT and IIA Rossiya Segodnya
“All the time we are accustomed to believe that the international audience does not love us, that they particularly don’t love Putin and all of us who are close to him or live in his country. I’m always arguing with my acquaintances and friends …who love to repeat the phrase – ‘the whole world is against us’… I always want to point out to my friends: ‘And what, China isn’t the world, India isn’t the world, the Arab world, almost all of which is completely on our side -- well a significant part of it -- isn’t the world? Latin America isn’t the world? They don’t respect other nations, because for those people, the world is the Western world, and not just people from the so-called Western world, but the Western establishment…”
Read more...Despite the RT head’s claim that opposition to Russia and its leader is strictly the purview of Western powers-that-be, international polling shows that Putin is by no means supported by a global majority. -
![Igor Giorgadze]()
Igor Giorgadze
Former Georgian state security minister
“…behind the walls of the Lugar Laboratory, biologists of the U.S. military-medical group in Georgia and private contractors under federal contract with the … Defense Threat Reduction Agency indeed could have performed secret experiments on residents of Georgia.”
Read more...There is no evidence that the people listed as “died” in the documents cited by Giorgadze were killed by “secret experiments” performed on them. On the contrary, they were treated with medicine approved by the Western medical and health associations for treatment of a hepatitis C infection. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“For six months we have been demanding, asking, and citing the legal grounds for getting consular access to the Russian citizen Yulia Skripal. In various forms, on various obviously far-fetched pretexts, we are not allowed to do this.”
Read more...Yulia Skripal said she was aware of the consulate’s offers and refused to meet with consular officials on her own volition. -
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Nicolas Dhuicq
A spokesman for the Debout La France (France Arise) party
"We are unfortunately living in a propaganda era, when media and the Western establishment are trying to discredit any information coming from Russia. The team that investigates the plane’s downing will be obliged to take into account this new information released by the Russian authorities but the international community will remain silent. They prefer not to speak on a topic where they were wrong. They are and will remain totally silent on a subject. Their silence proves that this information is true and credible."
Read more...The sole member of a political party in the French National Assembly accused the West of “silence” following the latest Russian “evidence” on the downing of MH17. The international body investigating the accident (JIT) said it would make note of the claim, but pointed out it requested all information from the Russian Federation in 2014. The JIT also stated, it has investigated all previous “evidence” provided by Russia and found it “factually inaccurate.” -
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Igor Konashenkov
Russian Ministry of Defense Spokesperson
"By using the Russian plane as cover the Israeli air pilots made it vulnerable to Syrian air defense fire. As a result, the Ilyushin-20, its reflective surface being far greater than that of the F-16, was downed by a missile launched with the S-200 system.”
Read more...The Israeli fighters did not use the Russian plane as “cover”: Israel says the missile that downed it was fired after the fighters left Syrian airspace. -
![Valentin Vatsev]()
Valentin Vatsev
Bulgarian political analyst
“Do not believe the stupid Western propaganda that Russia grabbed a piece of Ukrainian holy land from Ukraine. Nothing like that. Crimea has been Russian since very long time and it will be forever”
Read more...The Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea violated post-Soviet agreements Russia signed establishing the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine. The international community recognized the annexation of Crimea as a land grab in United Nation General Assembly Resolution 68/262. The resolution confirmed the territorial integrity of Ukraine and invalidated the Crimean referendum on independence held in 2014. -
Would Visiting the U.S. Help Vladimir Putin ‘Humanize' His Adversary? Fact: Putin Visited Nine Times
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John Wight
RT Contributor
“Indeed it is arguable that without his prolonged visit to the U.S. in 1959, Khrushchev may not have been so willing to accommodate JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis three years later in 1962 – the reason being that only in visiting the country or countries of his adversaries is a leader able to humanize it beyond the realm of geopolitical differences. In 2018, due to the unbounded anti-Russia fever that has Washington in its grip, it is highly unlikely that any such visit to the U.S. by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be taking place anytime soon, nor to Russia by his U.S. counterpart, President Trump. In this respect at least, the hard lessons of the twentieth century have been lost.”
Read more...Russian President Vladimir Putin has much more experience “visiting the country of his adversaries,” with his nine publicly known visits to the U.S., than did Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who only visited America once. Thus, the author’s argument is baseless. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian State Media Agency
Twenty eight political movements and organizations, including the largest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, signed a memorandum on cooperation and creating a campaign headquarters for boycotting the referendum.
Read more...The position of VMRO-DPMNE regarding the referendum boycott is ambiguous, but its leadership has expressed full support for Macedonia’s bid to join NATO and the EU. However, it opposes the agreement with Greece to change Macedonia’s name, and a faction will quietly stay away. -
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Sputnik
State-owned media outlet
“The step (reducing U.S. Treasury Securities) is being considered a prudent approach directed towards insulating the country from the US attempt to weaponize the dollar.”
Read more...India has joined a number of other countries in reducing their holdings of U.S. Treasury securities recently. This is largely due to market factors, not “weaponization of the dollar.”
