Internet/social media
Sunday 24 March 2019
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![RT (Russia Today)]()
RT (Russia Today)
State-owned media outlet
“‘Behind me is toothpaste CNN said doesn't exist in #Venezuela’ – Max Blumenthal explores markets outside #Caracas”
Read more...CNN didn’t say that toothpaste doesn’t exist or isn’t available in Venezuela. More importantly, a video from the state-run subsidized market doesn’t disprove the reality of critical shortages of basic goods in the country. -
![Svobodnaya Pressa]()
Svobodnaya Pressa
Russian News Outlet
“USA Air Forces: ‘Thanks very much to the Russians for taking Crimea”
Read more...None of the U.S. Air Forces’ commanders or representatives, including General Tod Wolters, ever said the words cited in the Russian media outlet. -
![RIA Novosti]()
RIA Novosti
Russian state-owned media outlet
“‘Not Odessa, but Kotsyubeyev!’ Why does Kyiv erase the real names of cities”
Read more...While Ukraine’s “decommunization” law is not without controversy, countries have the right to rename cities and other geographical features as they wish. Nothing in the law requires new city names to be based on historical titles. -
![Vyacheslav Volodin]()
Vyacheslav Volodin
Chairman of the Russian State Duma
“It is important, [Volodin] said, ‘not to close, not to cut off, but to ensure the security of the internet in the Russian Federation’.”
Read more...Despite attempts at assuring the Russian public that the draft law on the Digital Economy National Program is not intended to “cut off” Russia from the world, critics fear Russia’s own “Great Firewall” is in the offing. -
![Konstantin Kosachev]()
Konstantin Kosachev
Chairman, International Affairs Committee, Russia’s Federation Council
"Guaido’s status cannot be determined from abroad, whether by the president of the United States or any other country. It can be determined only by the people of Venezuela and only by constitutional means. In this sense, for Russia the presidential status of Guaido doesn’t exist."
Read more...The U.S. is just one of many countries and international organizations which recognize the interim presidency of Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido. Many of these countries didn't recognize Maduro’s controversial reelection in 2018. His original term ended on January 10, 2019. -
![Maram Susli AKA Mimi al-Laham]()
Maram Susli AKA Mimi al-Laham
Vlogger, commentator
“NATO puppet #Bellingcat created an account pretending its [sic]"In #Venezuela" when the Bellingcat author behind it actually a student in Canada.”
Read more...While the Twitter account calls itself “In Venezuela,” it publicly identifies its physical location as based in Toronto, Canada. This is also stated at the top of the “about” section on the writer’s blog. -
![Margarita Simonyan]()
Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-chief of RT
“From the outset, Salmond insisted that the process was political and the charges were investigated with violations. The court supported him. It’s dangerous to be an RT presenter.”
Read more...Simonyan distorts the court’s actual decision in favor of Salmond, and makes other errors about the Scottish court system. RT put out an official statement declining to comment to preserve "due process." -
![Dmitry Kiselyov]()
Dmitry Kiselyov
TV News Presenter, CEO, Rossiya Segodnya state information agency
“The new American fashion is hostages. Back at the beginning of the 21st century, only bandits and terrorists took hostages. They have a goal -- they seize a person or several and demand the fulfillment of their wishes from others.”
Read more...None of the Russian people Kiselyov names are “hostages.” One was convicted in court, another pleaded guilty, and one has not even been arrested. Reasonable protests have been made in the fourth case, but there have been no demands from the U.S. as terms for release. -
![Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department]()
Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department
Press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry
“… the recent statement made by the Taliban about the targeted raid by the US special task force to capture a Taliban prison in the Afghan province of Badghis…All of the militants were moved by the special task force to an unknown destination…suggests that the US might have been trying to prevent a leak of information regarding what the ISIS members could reveal about their real sponsors.”
Read more...The Russian Foreign Ministry provided no evidence for any of its claims, which contradict well-established reality about the U.S. fight against the Islamic State and the Taliban. -
![RT Russian Service]()
RT Russian Service
State-owned media outlet
“In December 2018, in the Odessa region, unknown persons organized a pogrom at a church in the village of Semenovka, Belgorod-Dniester district. The attackers stole donations and desecrated the church premises.”
Read more...The incident in the Odessa region was totally unrelated to the fire in Kyiv, and it was an act of vandalism.” No motive has been established. In Kyiv, police detained a 24-year-old homeless man who is accused of setting fire to some mattresses. -
![Promobot]()
Promobot
Russian tech company
"An unmanned Tesla Model S destroyed an autonomous Promobot model v.4 in Las Vegas, USA. The Promobot cannot be repaired.”
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![Dmitry Kosyrev]()
Dmitry Kosyrev
Political commentator, Russia Today
"’In 1941, the Germans dropped an atomic bomb on us’: who now rules in the U.S.”
Read more...A Russia Today commentator ironically takes aim at the American educational system after mistaking a comedic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meme generator for a genuine quote aggregator.
