Politics
Saturday 19 October 2019
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Volkan Bozkir
Head of Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee
"The objective of this operation is to ensure our border security, neutralize terrorists in the region and thus, save Syrians from the oppression and cruelty of these terrorists."
Read more...Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria has already led to the escape of ISIS prisoners who were in captivity in Kurdish-controlled territory. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
“After [the U.S. authorities denied entry visas to members of the Russian delegation] the First and the Sixth Committees of the U.N. General Assembly, in protest, suspended their work for several hours.”
Read more...The United Nations First and Sixth committees both had procedural delays in their October 14 sessions: one due to the issues with the Iranian delegations, the second – per requests from the Ukrainian and the U.S. representatives. -
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Olga Skabeyeva
Rossiya-1 television host
“Never [presented Ukraine in a negative light] on purpose.”
Read more...After Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian state media should not paint Ukraine in an unfavorable light, Rossiya-1 state television host Olga Skabeyeva claimed she had never trashed the country on purpose. The data, however, suggests Ukraine-bashing is Russian state-media policy. -
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Yuri Ganus
CEO RUSADA
“You know, it happens that we work at a computer, press a key, once - and something is deleted. But the amount of data that was transferred by the Russian side to WADA representatives in January cannot be changed with one random click ... it cannot be said that there was a voltage drop, lightning struck and something was erased there. Such an explanation will not work for sure. We need more convincing and acceptable arguments if we want to avoid the worst.”
Read more...WADA did not reveal the data its investigators retrieved from the Moscow lab, but the bits of information from the agency’s public reports suggest there were only 47 uncompromised cases while hundreds are said to have “inconsistencies.” -
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Gazeta.ru
Gazprom-owned Russian newspaper
"Ukrainian cities may be left without centralized heating this winter. Urban dwellers, including in Kyiv, are thinking about stockpiling firewood."
Read more...In fabricating negative stories about Ukraine’s readiness for winter, the Russian media is recycling reports already broadcast last year. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin spokesperson
“The Russian side knows nothing about Giuliani’s participation [in an Eurasian Economic Union Supreme Council forum in Armenia], [or] the cancellation of his participation.”
Read more...In accordance with an agreement signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a commission in Russia decides who will be invited to participate in and speak at meetings of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) Supreme Council. -
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Sputnik News
Russian state funded radio broadcaster
“Russia has been repeatedly accused of meddling in the US elections by Western powers. However, subsequent probes failed to find evidence pointing to any Russian interference in the US election.”
Read more...After “Putin’s Chef,” Yevgeniy Prigozhin faced another raft of sanctions for funding efforts to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, Russian state media have once again falsely claimed charges of Russian interference are unfounded. -
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Gennady Ivanov
Senior Russian Military Instructor, Central African Republic
“We don’t have any kind of relationship with PMC Wagner.”
Read more...Apart from earlier evidence of Wagner mercenaries operating in CAR, the document shown in the TV segment displayed a medal issued to Wagner fighters. -
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Vladimir Kornilov
Russian political commentator
“Poland, the Baltic States and, for some time now, Ukraine, without even realizing that they are acting to their own detriment, are trying to do everything they can to, as they see it, harm Russia. That is why they are impeding the expansion of Russian gas projects and acting solely for the sake of the United States, contrary to their own national interests.”
Read more...Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine oppose Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream because these projects endanger their energy security. They have launched new regional initiatives, working in solidarity, not to harm Russia or satisfy the Unites States, but to enhance their national interests. -
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Arguments and Facts
Russian daily
“Her fight for the environment has the same relationship to the real problems of the earth as the terrorists of ISIS … have to true Islam.”
Read more...The attacks on Greta Thunberg's data credibility are baseless and while she is not an environmental scientist, scientists say she uses reliable data in her speeches and her activism inspires millions worldwide. -
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Natalya Poklonskaya
Member of Russian Parliament
"In order to end all speculations and outdated and very annoying fairy tales from overseas about the annexation of Crimea, it would be good to consider the opportunity of relocating the UN headquarters to Crimea, for example to Yalta."
Read more...Russian MP Natalya Poklonskaya has suggested moving the United Nations headquarters to Crimea, saying it would help end “annoying fairy tales” about Crimea's annexation. There’s a problem: The UN itself adopted a referendum calling Moscow's seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula illegitimate. -
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RT
Russian-state broadcaster
“Graft kings: Top 6 Russians accused of corruption & what their stolen money COULD buy”
Read more...A recent article published on RT’s website claimed to detail Russia’s six top corruption scandals. However, it omitted the most prominent corruption scandals in Russia in recent years, while sidestepping graft allegations leveled at Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
