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Lenta.ru
“MTS was the first company in Russia to present the iPhone 15 Pro Max in its flagship store a day before the start of global sales."
Read more...The Russian government uses a scheme called parallel imports to avoid bans and get sanctioned foreign goods to the domestic market. That includes the iPhone 15 sold in Russia despite Apple’s exit last year. -
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President
"The American judiciary is a full-fledged judiciary. So is the judiciary of Turkey. And you have to respect that. We are a state of law, and inside that state of law, this is how we lived, and this is how we will keep on living."
Read more...Despite claims of judicial independence, Erdogan has used Turkey’s courts to target dissent. -
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Mao Ning
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson
“To say they [Chinese press outlets and social media users] ‘made up or spread disinformation’ is completely unfounded. If anyone was ‘making up or spreading disinformation’, it would be The New York Times, not them.”
Read more...At least five organizations that are authoritative in cybersecurity have independently verified that the Chinese government has created a massive network of social media users tasked with sowing discord in the United States. -
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Press TV
“In yet another attack spearheaded by the West against freedom of speech in Iran, the Australian government has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on a number of Iranian individuals and entities, including the English-language Press TV news network, on the anniversary of foreign-backed riots in the country.”
Read more...Australia sanctioned Iran’s state-run Press TV for airing forced confessions, not the exercise of "free speech," which Iranian authorities have denied its citizens through systematic repression. -
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Marina Zakharova
chairwoman of the electoral commission in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region
"In total, 65.14% of the Kherson region’s voters took part in the voting."
Read more...Any form of Russian “elections” in Ukrainian war zones are illegal in the eyes of international law. Russia’s claims of high turnout are unverifiable. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“We’re not [punishing] anyone at all. Who are we [punishing]? This [foreign agent] law has been in force since 1937, I think, or 1938 in the USA, ours is almost a copy, only it’s much more liberal.”
Read more...The Russian government has been using the “foreign agent” law as an effective tool for public disrepute and criminal persecution of dissent, including in suppressing press freedom. -
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titan5151
TikTok user
Large lightning appears before earthquake in Morocco with unknown causes.
Read more...Social media users leverage videos of flashing lights in Morocco, some faked, to falsely pin Morocco earthquake on a U.S. weather weapon. -
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Vasily Golubev
Governor of Russia’s Rostov Oblast
“Zinaida Vasilievna Ermolyeva … who was called Madame Penicillin… invented penicillin."
Read more...Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, for which they received a Nobel Prize.
