Georgia
Sunday 29 March 2020
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
“We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us.”
Read more...In 2014, Putin initiated a military takeover of Crimea, Ukraine, and gave military support to a separatist insurgency in Donbas, where fighting continues. In 2015, he inserted Russia into the Syrian civil war. -
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Russian Foreign Ministry
We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.
Read more...Each year, the Russian Foreign Ministry issues an annual review. Polygraph.info fact-checks six of the false or misleading claims made about cybersecurity, Syria, the United States, Latin America and the INF treaty. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
Claims about WADA doping ban, Maria Butina's foreign agent plea, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's killing in Berlin.
Read more...Polygraph.info presents three claims Putin repeated during his year-end presser that we have previously fact-checked and proved false. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“He is a cruel and blood-thirsty person. In just one of the attacks in which he took part, he killed 98 people. He was one of the organizers of explosions in the Moscow metro.”
Read more...Despite an assertion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former Chechen fighter assassinated in Berlin was not on Russia’s terrorist list and had not been accused in any of the seven Moscow metro bombings since 1996. -
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Alexey Martynov
Director, International Institute of the Newly Established States, Moscow
“Transnistria is an independent state.”
Read more...In a radio interview, Alexey Martynov did not use words asserting Transnistria’s independence, as attributed to him by First Transnistrian TV -
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Avia.pro
Russian news agency
“The Georgian authorities are not giving a U.S. Navy transport [vessel] permission to enter their country’s territorial waters.”
Read more...Russia’s media pushed stories about Georgia denying a U.S. Navy vessel entry to its Black Sea port, raising questions about U.S.-Georgia relations. The news was fabricated. -
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Kommersant, newspaper
“In fact, only his compatriots could have dealt with him - both Russian Chechens and “Ichkeria” militants, hiding in Europe from criminal prosecution [in Russia].”
Likely falseChechens “hiding” from Russia in Europe would not ask to speak with the Russian EmbassyRead more...The suspect in the murder investigation arrested by the court in Berlin demanded to talk with representatives of the Russian Embassy – a request that is highly unlikely to be made by Chechen separatists “hiding” from Russia in Europe. -
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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. -
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Russia's Black Sea Fleet
“The Ukrainian Navy’s claims that the Black Sea Fleet’s Smetlivy patrol vessel entered the closed area of the Sea Breeze 2019 exercise are untrue.”
Read more...Whether or not the Russian guided-missile destroyer Smetlivy sailed into a zone being used for multinational naval live-fire drills, the ship was present in the vicinity of the drills. Russia is demonstratively aggressive toward NATO’s presence in the Black Sea. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
“Russia has no intention of becoming similar [to some other countries] imposing their stance by using illegitimate sanctions.”
Read more...After targeting Georgian wine exports and announcing a flight ban following anti-Moscow protests in Tbilisi, the Kremlin claimed no "illegal" sanctions are being employed. However, the so-called "restrictions" from the Russian side are clearly designed to hit Georgia's bottom line. -
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Dmitry Medvedev
Russian Prime Minister
“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.”
Read more...Looking at all of Russia’s main trading partners, only one has seen the share of trade dramatically increase over the past decade. -
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Anonymous
Alleged Ukrainian Military officer
"The army was turned into a private business. A business where you profit from the officials. It is the business of selling the bodies of our soldiers, which are supplied from Ukraine to Europe."
Read more...The Russian TV channel NTV made a number of claims about former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his wife Sandra Roelofs, including that she is part of black market organ harvesting in Eastern Ukraine. But the latest spin on this conspiracy theory is lacking in both evidence and logic.
