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“’Against the background of the severe epidemiological situation in America, the Russian side offered assistance in the form of medical equipment and protective equipment,’ he [Peskov] said, noting that the U.S. president gratefully accepted this humanitarian assistance.”

“The next important object is the Lugar Laboratory, also known as the Georgian Research Center in Tbilisi, which is functioning at the disposal of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia and is the investment project of the USA aimed at creating a strategic military facility. The laboratory is studying especially dangerous infectious diseases, but it hides the true motives of its research, which may indicate the possibility of developing biological weapons.”

"From this morning we have brought a special drug used in China which is claimed to have resulted in improvements in intensive care patients, cutting their time in care from 11-12 days to four days. The new drugs will be used by COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care units.”

“If @StateDept claims the mounting global questions about US role in #COVID19 pandemic are mere "Iran-made conspiracy theories", then US must answer some of these questions asked by the Global Research.”

"Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace. This is meanness at the level of public policy. Moreover, the help was for an ally of Poland in the EU and NATO. From now on, Russia should not meet Poland half-way, on any issue."

“Prokopyeva is suspected of activities aimed at the public justification of terrorism, accomplished with the use of media or online informational-telecommunications networks, including the Internet.”

“It is about some groundless accusations. In fact, this Russophobic obsession could be expected to fade under the current situation, but it doesn’t seem to be fading,"

“The militia did not bring down the Boeing, I know better than anyone. And there was nothing with which we could bring it down, at least before I left the territory of the DNR (Donetsk People’s Republic).”

"The promised 6 billion euros -- they [Brussels] did not release. Now they say they will allocate 1 billion euros. Who are you lying to?”

“We will publish your book because we still remember a time when books were banned, and do not wish to see it return...we believe in free speech.”

“Don’t panic. Oil is falling but Russia remains in the black, not allowing its opportunities in the global oil market to be curtailed. Strategically, the decision is the right one. Had we agreed to a bad deal with OPEC (read - with the Saudis) - we would have been thrown overboard and deprived of new income. Now we have a chance not only to extract and sell as much as we need to extract and sell, but also to send American LNG (liquid natural gas) overboard.”

“No, I like my work, but, to resort to some kind of power scheme that is unacceptable for the country or would destroy it, in order to preserve my authority - that’s what I’m afraid of, that’s what I don’t want to do.”