Belarus

“It is a clear triumph that expresses the loyalty of the Belarusian people to their national sovereignty to guarantee their integral development, prosperity, and maintenance of peace and security.”

“We have never denied that coronavirus existed. This is the way mass media has presented it. How can we deny what is really here?”

“All that about Istanbul, Venezuela, Africa, Libya is lies. These people (they have confessed) were sent specifically to Belarus. Their orders were to wait. They had tickets purchased [to fly] to Istanbul but that was their cover story.”

“The BBC, Radio Free Europe, and so on. Those web streams … They go beyond biased reporting. They call for mass riots.”

“[I]t is unfair to claim that the two-day visit to Moscow of Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was the main reason for the start of the Second World War. All the leading countries are to a certain extent responsible for its outbreak.”

"We do not know about any oligarchs, or about their existence."

“People on tractors are working, nobody is talking about the virus. There the tractors will cure everybody. The field cures everyone!”

“Sputnik Belarus in January had 10 million unique visitors, with the country’s population of 9.5 million. That is more than Radio Svoboda, the Polish BelSat and other foreign media in the country have, combined. I am proud!”

“In these circumstances, the Soviet Union had to go it alone to ensure its national security and sign a non-aggression pact with Germany. This forced move made it possible to better prepare for the coming war with the aggressor. Today, it is worth reminding everyone that our country made a decisive contribution to defeating the Hitler war machine and liberating Europe and the world from Nazism. Had the efforts been joined in the pre-war period, the many victims could have been avoided.”

“The Chernobyl series … is packed with petty anti-Soviet filth, which poisons viewers’ brains, thus becoming a deliberate, well-thought-out distortion of Soviet reality.”

“Probably, the level of integration in the CIS format is not the same as in the Eurasian Union... But this is a common story. These are, as we say, variable-speed tracks of integration.”

"I understand that some countries would like to forget as soon as possible about the role that they played in the years of prior to World War II. However, I deem those attempts to accuse us of militarizing public opinion as offensive."