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Saturday 24 August 2019
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![Zakhar Prilepin]()
Zakhar Prilepin
Russian novelist, TV presenter
"By the results rarely anybody could compete with my battalion. All we had been doing was simply a pure mayhem. And this especially makes me laugh because of the attacks on me, especially the ones about how I'm a 'fake field commander.' No one, not one field commander, has got such results as I have. I can’t even talk about it, but one day the documents will surface and everybody will learn at which locations there were most human losses and that my battalion was there."
Read more...Zakhar Prilepin was deputy commander of a "battalion" formed in 2016, well after the last major combat operations in Donbas. He spent much of his time in Donetsk hosting a TV show. A former battalion leader claimed it was not a combat unit. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“In the field of sports, there are power battles which are mainly aimed at ensuring that an Anglo-Saxon group of states determines the rules, including with regards to the use of doping.”
Read more...Russia’s foreign minister has claimed an “Anglo-Saxon” group of states is dictating anti-doping policies to the world. Current anti-doping rules follow the World Anti-Doping Code first introduced in 1999 in Switzerland, to which 660 sports organizations, including Russia’s, are signatories. -
![Xie Feng]()
Xie Feng
Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
“They have told blatant lies, applauded violence as 'a beautiful sight to behold…'
Read more...A Chinese official in Hong Kong directed his ire at Western politicians he claimed had “applauded violence as 'a beautiful sight to behold'.” He was citing Nancy Pelosi’s words, which did not applaud violence, but praised a peaceful candlelight vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. -
![Nikolai Patrushev]()
Nikolai Patrushev
Russian Security Council Secretary
"I am unable to mention a single instance [of a violation] or piece of evidence they [the US] presented to us. There has been nothing of the sort."
Read more...The U.S. has raised Russia’s INF violations in more than 30 bilateral meetings over the past six years. Russian military commanders have inadvertently disclosed that the Novator 9M729 is capable of exceeding the 500 km threshold of the INF Treaty. -
![Embassy of the Russian Federation in London]()
Embassy of the Russian Federation in London
Official Twitter feed
“Sanctions and accusations are poor substitute for evidence. And the latter lacks utterly.”
Read more...Following additional U.S. sanctions on Russia over the March 2018 Novichok poisoning, Russia's U.K. embassy claimed there is no proof linking Moscow to the attack. However, the presence of Russian GRU officers near the Skripals’ Salisbury home and other evidence points to the Kremlin's culpability. -
![Russian Embassy in South Africa Twitter Account]()
Russian Embassy in South Africa Twitter Account
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
“Thought police is already here - @twitter suspends account of the Russian Embassy in #Syria (!) after it posted factual criticism of the #WhiteHelmets, quoted @mod_russia data. Wasn't verified account yet - only proves "ordinary" accounts not allowed to have differing opinions”
Read more...Twitter did not say why it banned the account in question. However, the Twitter accounts of a number of Russian embassies have repeatedly disseminated false information about the White Helmets. -
![Alexey Martynov]()
Alexey Martynov
Director of the International Institute of Newly-Established States
“And so, the attempt to organize mass unrest in Moscow through provocations to elicit a extremely harsh police reaction have failed.”
Read more...After protests against a ban on opposition candidates in Moscow’s upcoming municipal elections turned violent, a pro-Kremlin pundit claimed that the protesters had tried to provoke a harsh police response. But journalists and rights organizations say the police crackdown was swift and unprovoked. -
![Sputnik Serbia]()
Sputnik Serbia
Russian government-sponsored web portal
“The persecution of the SPC [Serbian Orthodox Church] in North Macedonia, as well as the latest heightened tensions and pressure on the SPC diocese in Montenegro can be interpreted as part of the wider strategy of the West to counter Orthodoxy.”
Read more...NATO is no enemy of Orthodoxy as several NATO member states are predominantly Christian Orthodox. The Orthodox churches of Montenegro and North Macedonia have been seeking independence even before the break up of Yugoslavia. -
![Russian Foreign Ministry]()
Russian Foreign Ministry
"This step clearly shows official Riga's desire to clear its information space from independent and not controlled by the state media outlets."
Read more...The Russian Foreign Ministry claim that Baltnews.lv is “independent” and a non-state-controlled media outlet is false. The news portal is part of the Russian government-owned media conglomerate MIA Rossiya Segodnya. -
![Murad Gazdiev]()
Murad Gazdiev
Reporter, RT International
“The Mueller report did not provide any proof of the troll factory’s ties with the U.S. election interference.”
Read more...The Mueller investigation into the Russian “troll factory’s” interference in U.S. elections and political processes resulted in a grand jury indictment of 13 Russian nationals. IRA and its financial sponsor Concord were also indicted along with Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin. -
![Vladimir Zhirinovsky]()
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Leader of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
“Turchynov said that it is necessary to blow up the Crimean Bridge. Perhaps lunatics can be found who will try to do that. In that case, Ukraine will cease to exist as a territory that considers itself a state.”
Read more...The former secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, did not say it was necessary to blow up the Crimean Bridge; he said Ukraine’s new Neptune cruise missile is capable of demolishing it. -
![Twitter Account of Russian Embassy in U.K.]()
Twitter Account of Russian Embassy in U.K.
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
"#Ukraine’s language law comes into force, prohibiting Russian from being spoken by doctors and teachers. Clear violation of human rights and #MinskAgreements."
Read more...Ukraine’s new language law does not prohibit doctors from using Russian or any other language with a patient. Doctors can be penalized only if they refuse to speak Ukrainian.
