Ukraine
Monday 25 January 2021
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“During the attack on the Capitol, supporters of Donald Trump used the Russian language.”
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"Achieving sustainable development goals could become one of the elements in the bilateral dialogue between Moscow and Washington, but it is not. Because this dialogue is generally far from being in the best state right now, and not because of Moscow."
The major break in U.S.-Russia relations came in 2014 with Russia’s Crimea annexation, followed by its war in Ukraine and U.S. election interference. -
"It’s hard to say what Ms. Sandu meant when she pointed to the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers, but it will hardly help resolve the issue and we will hardly be able to accept this kind of irresponsible demand.”
Source: TASS, December 1, 2020The U.N. has said Russian troops in Transnistria aren’t peacekeepers and should leave Moldovan territory. -
“[It was Psaki] who was going to send the fleet to the shores of Belarus.”
Rossiya Segodnya chief seized on words real and imagined from President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for White House press secretary to preemptively tar his new administration. -
“If it wants to be taken seriously on the world stage, Russia should take a leaf out of Washington’s book and deploy more of its soldiers in other countries. That’s according to former U.S. President Barack Obama.”
Obama didn’t actually write that. In fact, he said Russia lacks the ability to project its military might globally. -
“The Red Army liberated European nations from the Nazi plague and brought peace and freedom to them.”
The Red Army did drive the Nazis out of Hungary and other Central/Eastern European countries, but the Soviets ushered in an era of dictatorships. -
“Why should our people participate in the experiments of some foreign uncles, if there are those who have already conducted two phases of testing, have confirmed the possibility of using the vaccine and are ready to provide it?”
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has not finished final testing, scant data about prior tests has been shared, and there are doubts about whether it works. -
“Moscow insisted that the probe ignored a large batch of data on the crash that Russia was eager to provide, instead relying largely on the evidence from Ukraine, and on ‘open-source’ information such as clips of purported evidence posted on social media.”
Russia provided radar data on the 2014 airliner tragedy, then said it was faulty. Other evidence confirms the plane was shot down. -
The article leaves out Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ties to the Kremlin, that he is sanctioned by the United States and key details of his business.
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“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.”
One of the demonstrators interviewed on camera is a Russian citizen running for office in Moscow city. This was not disclosed in the segment. -
“The members of the so-called coordination council, Anton Rodnenkov, Ivan Kravtsov and Maria Kolesnikova, tried to leave the territory of Belarus.”
The opposition leaders maintain they were forcibly taken to the Ukraine border. Kolesnikova had been abducted off the street the previous day. -
“We cannot rule that (a ‘provocation’ by Western intelligence services) out.”
There is no evidence that Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, now in a coma, was poisoned by Western countries that are condemning the Kremlin.