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Tuesday 17 July 2018
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russian Federation
“Let me remind you that both Russian and American military acquired useful experience of coordination of their actions, established the operational channels of communication, which permit it to avoid dangerous incidents and unintentional collisions in the air and in (on) the ground.”
Read more...Russian air forces on multiple occasions conducted dangerous operations with the U.S. Navy and the Russian ground paramilitary troops intentionally created “close military encounters” with NATO and U.S. forces -- in Syria at least on one occasion. -
Sputnik International
Russian state-owned media outlet
“Croatian President Thanks Putin for Fighting Acts of Hatred at World Cup."
Read more...FIFA has fined several countries for fan and player behavior during the World Cup, including Russia. The article also leaves out other things discussed by the two presidents. -
Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter Account
Official social media account
“While the useless military bloc #НАТО (NATO) accuses us of provocative activities and continues to gnash its teeth in Brussels, we are preparing to watch #ЧМ2018 (World Cup 2018)”
Read more...NATO has grown from 12 founding states to 29 nations. And when the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5, which states that an attack on any member state is an attack on all members. -
Tsargrad.tv
Orthodox Christian TV channel in Russia
“The results of a poll conducted by the Gallup Institute showed that in 2018 only 47% of Americans are proud of their country.”
Read more...Gallup used a scale from “extremely” to “not at all” to determine how proud Americans are of their country. The actual number of these who said they are proud is 95%, while 3% responded they are “not at all proud.” The Russian media misrepresented the Gallup results, using only the 47% of those who said they are “extremely” proud as the total number. -
Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations Twitter Account
Official social media account
“It’s unacceptable to impose on #children ideology of #nationalism, to teach them false history and values. They should not be discriminated on national origin or be denied the right to learn in native language. We’ll continue to draw intl [international] attention to such violations in some States”
Read more...The Mission does not name individual countries or violations. And Russia routinely subjects young children to militaristic “patriotic” indoctrination and false historical narratives, and it also suppresses the use of non-Russian languages in schools. -
Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom
“Americans always said they had no troops in Ukraine.”
Read more...There are no U.S. troops engaged in combat in Ukraine and the deployment of military personnel in Ukraine for training purposes was publicly announced in advance. -
Dmitry Mikheyev
Dean, Moscow International Business School
"The issue of migration to the United States is not so acute. The outflow of Mexicans to their homeland is now higher than the influx into the States. The number illegally arriving in the country has also decreased.”
Read more...While Dmitry Mikheyev and RT find a kernel of truth in the U.S. immigration issue, the Russian government media agency promotes a narrative that ignores the complexity of the illegal migration to the U.S. and the context of the political debate. -
RIA Novosti
State-owned media outlet
“According to preliminary data, the incident in Amesbury was not a ‘Russian attack’, said Deputy Chief of the British Interior Ministry Ben Wallace.”
Read more...Ben Wallace, whom RIA Novosti called the deputy head of Britain’s police but in fact is its Minister of Security, specifically pointed to Russia in this latest poisoning, and demanded an explanation from the Russian authorities. -
Steven Seagal
Actor, musician, martial artist
“I am sure that President Putin … is trying to create a situation in which the balance of powers is more stable, and a little more logical and predictable” [as quoted in Russian].
Read more...With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, along with numerous Russian snap military drills and violations of the airspace of neighboring countries, Putin has made the balance of power less stable and far less predictable. -
Tatiana Moskalkova
Russian Commissioner for Human Rights
“I received an official response from the leadership of the FSIN (Russia’s correctional service) that since she (Denisova) is a citizen of another state, and he (Sentsov) is a citizen of Russia, she cannot yet be allowed in.”
Read more...Oleh Sentsov is a citizen of Ukraine, not Russia, and the Russian prison authorities themselves have said so. The Russian human rights commissioner denied Ukraine access to Senstov based on the false claim. -
Russian Defense Ministry
“Not a single anti-aircraft missile system of the armed forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border.”
Read more...The International Joint Investigation Team discovered and published detailed evidence proving that the “Buk” missile system used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board, belonged to and was deployed by Russia. -
Alexander Karpushin
Russian Ambassador to Albania
“[T]he main objectives of Russia here are the building of economic cooperation with mutual benefits and the maintenance of sustainable cultural and humanitarian ties with the Balkan peoples. All this certainly applies to Albania. Any other speculation about Russia's ‘aggressive plans’ or ‘expansionist appetites’ is nothing more than part of a major Western strategy to portray Russia as an imaginary enemy of NATO and the EU.”
Read more...Russia has annexed foreign territory, is involved in several regional conflicts, and has reportedly been meddling in sovereign countries’ domestic politics, including in the Balkans. Moscow has repeatedly said it sees NATO as an enemy and a threat to Russia’s national interests.