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Thursday 19 April 2018
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Sergey Lavrov
Foreign Minister, Russia
“Because during the Cold War there were channels of communication. And there was no obsession with Russophobia, which resembles genocide through sanctions."
Read more...The United Nations defines genocide as the deliberate destruction of a specific group, and lists five types of actions toward a specific group that qualify as genocidal. None of these apply to the financial and travel restrictions the United States imposed on Russian government officials and tycoons. -
Sergei Ryabkov
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
"Everything rested on the absence of UN Secretariat security department approval for a visit by OPCW experts to the site of the events in Douma.”
Read more...The United Nations Secretariat has granted authorization for the OPCW's mission to inspect the site of the alleged chemical attack in Douma. -
Sputnik News and Zvezda
“In Latvia, Hitler has become more popular than Harry Potter.”
Read more...Sputniknews.com and Zvezda found a small used books Web site in Latvia, iBook, which stocks four copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Both media outlets claimed the book is more popular in Latvia than Harry Potter, but iBook is nowhere near to being a top shopping site in Latvia. -
Dmitry Peskov
Vladimir Putin's press secretary
"The Kremlin backs an objective investigation into this situation to provide trustworthy data, and so that we don’t rely on rumors and fake media reports. We believe that this information on such awful consequences of using chemical weapons in [Syria’s] Douma is not based on real data.”
Read more...Vladimir Putin's press secretary claim that the Kremlin backs an "objective investigation" into the use of chemical weapons in Syria is false. The Russian ambassador to the United Nations has systematically blocked resolutions calling for joint international investigations of chemical weapons use in Syria. -
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Official statement
"Information dumps about the use of chlorine or other poisonous substances by government troops are continuing. Another such fabricated story about an alleged chemical attack on Douma appeared yesterday."
Read more...Contrary to the Russian Foreign Ministry's claim, there does appear to be credible evidence that a chemical attack took place in Douma on April 7. -
RT
Russian state-funded news channel
"If you’re a Russian immigrant in the United States — or anywhere else — don’t bother tweeting your opinions unless your English is flawless. Otherwise you’ll be branded a Kremlin-paid troll by influential American think tanks."
Read more...Grammar mistakes common to Russian-speakers are only a small part of Nimmo’s article, which gives readers a list of several factors to look at when trying to determine whether an account is fake. RT’s writer either did not read the full article or deliberately misrepresented its content. -
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“As many already said, certainly, this was the most transparent and clean election in the history of our country.”
Read more...There have been only six presidential elections in the history of Russia, and only three elected presidents. In the two out of six elections, the winners were the incumbent’s hand-chosen successors and in four, Vladimir Putin was the winner. -
Ramzan Kadyrov
Head of Chechnya
“The Kadyrov Foundation is the only international charity organization working on the front line together with the Russian troops. Other international organizations are now forced to use its services to deliver aid to refugees.”
Read more...According to the Kremlin, there are no Russian troops on the front line in Syria. In addition, the aid provided by the Kadyrov Foundation in Syria is sporadic and negligible compared with other international humanitarian organizations. -
Margarita Simonyan
RT Editor-in-Chief
“The provider company that aired our broadcasts in Washington, D.C., kicked us off the broadcasting network. Yes, because of our status as a ‘foreign agent’.”
Read more...RT isn’t being targeted, as Margarita claims. Instead, the Washington D.C. station, which hosts several other foreign news channels, is closing down. The station’s ownership has clarified that this move has nothing to do with the U.S. Justice Department’s requirement for RT to register as a foreign agent. -
Anatoly Antonov
Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
“After receiving this information I’ve expressed a strong protest regarding today’s unlawful actions by the United States of America and I emphasized that to this day there is not a single bit of evidence of Russia’s interference in the investigation of the case (Skripal) as such, as well as of Russia’s involvement in this tragedy that took place in Salisbury.”
Read more...The United States has acted in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, to which Russia is a signatory, and joins Britain and other allies in accusing Russia the poisoning of its former spy. -
Alexander Yakovenko
Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
“We had no links with the analytical organization Cambridge Analytica, which received access to the data of Facebook users during the election campaign in the United States.”
Read more...Cambridge Analytica had multiple consultations with Lukoil and reportedly has done business in Russia. The firm's key researcher worked simultaneously in St. Petersburg State University and received Russian grants -
Namal Rajapaksa
Sri Lankan politician
Emirates Air #Moscow informs I won’t make my Houston Flight as #US Officials instruct them to not let me board. Valid reason yet to be received. US has the Sovereign right of course. Sure it has nothing to do with my name, being part of #lka opposition or my travel from #Russia (winking emoji)
FalseRajapaksa lists no qualifications as an election observer and he had no visa to enter the U.S.Read more...U.S. Border Control officials confirmed that Namal Rajapaksa had no valid visa to enter the United States. Rajapaksa's passport was reportedly impounded by his own government due to an ongoing criminal case for money laundering in Sri Lanka.