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Saturday 23 June 2018
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Tsargrad
News outlet owned by Kremlin-linked oligarch Konstantin Malofeev
"The People's Republic of Donetsk is recognized by the Scottish island of Forvik, which previously announced its separation from Great Britain."
Read more...Forewick Holm is not a populated island, and its self-proclaimed “Acting Foreign Minister and Sovereign” Stuart Hill has zero authority. -
USA Really
"News" agency linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency
“All of the peaceful actions in Washington, which our team at USA Really have planned for people, have been banned.”
Read more...The organizer, USA Really, did not provide any documentary proof that they applied for a permit to demonstrate and that their application was rejected by the U.S. authorities. -
Russian Foreign Ministry's Official Twitter Account
Russian Foreign Ministry
“In November 1991, in her speech in Houston, ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that ‘according to the estimates of the world community, it is economically feasible for only 15 million people to live in Russia.’”
Read more...The quote is fake and comes from a Russian-language book titled "Why Russia is Not America." There is no evidence that Margaret Thatcher ever said anything like this. -
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as representatives of many political movements do.”
Read more...Russia’s political system ranked is “authoritarian,” the country’s World Freedom score is consistent with “Not free” by Freedom House, based on lacking political rights, civil liberties and press freedom. -
Svetlana Sokolova
Russian regional governor
"Strunino is, of course, a small town, 14,000 residents in 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the main city, Alexandrov. And I think we will most definitely work on rebuilding that clinic there, especially since there is a need there.”
Read more...During his program "Direct Line," a group of women asked President Putin about their small town's crumbling hospital building. He turned to the regional governor -- and the women reacted with their own fact check of the governor's response. -
Dmitry Kiselev
Host of “Sunday News” on Rossiya-1 TV channel
"No, everything’s correct. Photographs are always taken with HDR, and then you get different facial expressions."
Read more...The Russian weekly news show hosted by Dmitry Kiselev used Photoshop to alter an image from a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kim Jong Un to make Kim appear happier. There are no other similar images or video of Kim smiling while shaking Lavrov’s hand. -
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
“For each date, the star actor [Johnny Depp] took a thousand dollars, which at the current exchange rates is about 62 thousand rubles. Roughly forty Moscow girls wanted to meet one-on-one with the Hollywood star, qualified roughly forty Moscow girls. If you add up the entire amount Depp earned, it turns he was enriched by Russian girls to the tune of about two and a half million rubles … Earlier it became known that Depp landed in a car accident in St. Petersburg. Fortunately, he managed to avoid serious injury.”
Read more...Johnny Depp had neither a car accident in St. Petersburg, nor paid for dates with women in Moscow -
Ya Russkiy Website
“This is George Soros. Remember this next time the Soros-funded liberals call you a racist, fascist or Nazi.”
Read more...Websites and social media followed by millions of Russian ultra-nationalists have for years recycled an article headlined “The SS Man George Soros.” The article includes a poster captioned “This is George Soros” that shows a photo of a young man in a German Nazi uniform. In fact, the man in the photo is Oskar Groening, a Nazi SS junior squad leader who served at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Kremlin banned Soros-founded NGOs from Russia in 2015 after declaring they posed a danger to the state. -
Maria Zakharova
Press secretary, Russian Foreign Ministry
"It is also worth mentioning that the United States has not provided satellite images, the presence of which was announced immediately after the [MH17] catastrophe."
Read more...Challenging the Joint Investigative Commission’s conclusion blaming Russia for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, Russia’s Foreign Ministry demanded the U.S. release satellite images taken at the time of the crash. In fact, the U.S. intelligence made these images public on July 22, 2014. -
Maria Zakharova
Press secretary, Foreign Ministry, Russia
“The initiative that seems to be useful at first glance and aimed at helping sports observers cover the main football event occurring every four years actually turned out to be nothing but more Russophobia, trivial anti-Russian stereotypes."
Read more...Zakharova criticized a handbook for journalists covering the World Cup in Russia next month. Produced by human rights groups, the handbook chronicles abuses of rights and freedoms committed by the Russian state, both during preparations for the 2018 World Cup and more broadly. It also recommends what foreign reporters should cover beyond sports. -
RT
Op-ed
“U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker went to the Kiev-controlled side of the conflict zone in the eastern Donbass region, where he declared American military support for retaking the breakaway self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.”
Read more...Volker didn’t say that Ukraine should retake its territory by force, nor did he say the U.S. would lend military support to such an effort. -
Natalia Nikipelova
President of the Russian Company TVEL
“We think that no sanctions can destroy the cooperation that is necessary for the safe development of atomic energy”
Read more...If new sanctions against Russia come into effect, they will not affect shipments of Russian nuclear fuel to nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States.