Verdicts

"The decision is clearly political in its nature and, as a matter of fact, is practically censorship — seven [Facebook] pages belonging to our news hubs in neighboring countries have been blocked.”

"We do know that [the president’s right to determine and pursue foreign policy] has been coming under attack from the Congress. The issue is covered extensively. However, this does not make these attacks constitutional, and it does not make them less illegal either.”

“I note that we’ve never, even in the days of tsarist Russia, killed people for dissent. This, by the way, is the great strength of our people.”

“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.”

“This is an absolute lie, without a grain of truth, not a single percent of reality. There were not and could not have been any detentions on the grounds of sexual orientation during this period in the Chechen Republic.”

“The press service also noted that in the trial against ‘Concord Management and Consulting,' special prosecutor Robert Mueller 'supposedly collected more than four million documents, which is more than 12 million printed pages, over 80% of which the defense is forbidden to familiarize itself with.'"

"An unmanned Tesla Model S destroyed an autonomous Promobot model v.4 in Las Vegas, USA. The Promobot cannot be repaired.”

“It’s a provocation, specifically to coerce the Russian delegation to slam the door and pull out of PACE.”

"’In 1941, the Germans dropped an atomic bomb on us’: who now rules in the U.S.”

“This not fraught with anything for Russia; rather, (it is) for NASA and the USA.”

“In reality, Russia is as safe for American tourists (or any other tourists, for that matter) as any other European country is — and the fact that a former official who really should know better is perpetuating the myth of deep, dark, dangerous Russia is utterly ridiculous.”

“World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie says he is 'disappointed' at the organization’s failure to access Moscow laboratory data as the deadline for the step elapsed at the end of 2018.”