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Monday 21 September 2020
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Global Times
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
"Xinjiang has rid itself of chaos, and people have been living a normal and stable life. This is reality. The vocational education and training centers have contributed to the situation, which is not hard to understand. But the political and opinion elites in the US and the West refuse to face up to the reality.”
Read more...China’s mass detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang “re-education camps” sparked a backlash over Disney’s “Mulan.” Reuters says China banned coverage of the film. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian foreign minister
"… [T]he recent statement, which voiced accusations against Russia that we are trying to abuse and utilize in the interests of one or another candidate the planned in the U.S mail in vote. I was amazed by such an accusation …”
Read more...Russian state media and social platform operations claim mail voting in the U.S. is flawed. But it might turn out to be OK for the Kremlin. -
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TASS
Russian state news agency
“Almost 30 protest activities took place in Belarus on Sunday, the overall number of protesters did not exceed 22,000, Interior Ministry Spokesperson Olga Chemodanova said in a statement on Telegram.”
Read more...An estimated 150,000 marched in Minsk for Sunday’s “March of Heroes.” Multiple media outlets including Russia's Interfax cited this estimate. -
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ATN Belarus 1
State-run news agency
“The day before, non-apathetic Belarusians who are against interference in the internal affairs of our state, against fakes and the fragmenting of society, gathered in Minsk’s Victory Square.”
Read more...One of the demonstrators interviewed on camera is a Russian citizen running for office in Moscow city. This was not disclosed in the segment. -
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Gen. Hamilton Mourao
vice president of Brazil
"Brazil is the country that most preserves its native forests in the world. That's the truth. We take care!”
Read more...National and international data show fires in the Amazon rainforest are setting records, flatly contradicting claims promoted by Bolsonaro government officials. -
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Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
Iran’s supreme leader
“The cardinal and unforgivable sin of a French magazine in insulting the holy face of the Prophet once again revealed the hatred and hostility of the political and cultural institutions of the Western world against Islam and the Muslim community.”
Read more...The French magazine has aimed its cartoon satire at other faiths as well, and past Western leaders have scolded it for going too far. -
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Belta
Belarusian state news agency
“The members of the so-called coordination council, Anton Rodnenkov, Ivan Kravtsov and Maria Kolesnikova, tried to leave the territory of Belarus.”
Read more...The opposition leaders maintain they were forcibly taken to the Ukraine border. Kolesnikova had been abducted off the street the previous day. -
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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Read more...The Chinese government cites misleading states to deny its population control program and the forced sterilization of Muslim Uighurs and other minorities. -
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Mikhail Aleksandrov
Center for Military Policy Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
“[B]ut the Americans themselves are to blame, as they are bullying Russia and spoiling for a fight.”
Read more...Russia’s recent harassment of U.S. fishing boats in the Bering Sea is only the latest example of an uptick in military confrontations between the superpowers. -
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Sergei Naryshkin
Head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
“We cannot rule that (a ‘provocation’ by Western intelligence services) out.”
Read more...There is no evidence that Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, now in a coma, was poisoned by Western countries that are condemning the Kremlin. -
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Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelan president
“Donald Trump approved that they kill me, that they kill me. Listen, I’m not exaggerating!”
Read more...In March, the U.S. indicted Maduro on narcoterrorism charges, and offered a $15 million reward for any information leading to him or for his capture, not his assassination. -
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Yuri Shvytkin
Member of Russia's State Duma
"Let's proceed from the fact that we are not engaged in the manufacture of similar kinds of chemical substances on our territory. As far as there is information, such weapons, such chemical toxic substances are available on the territory of Georgia from the United States, in the laboratory, and in the United States of America."
Read more...The U.S. is destroying its stockpile of chemical weapons while Russia reportedly stockpiled the nerve agent for a decade. Georgia does not produce it.
