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“A report of CNN claiming that the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate have killed enemy’s commando soldiers after surrendering is not true. A fake scene has been montaged with another scene of 22 commandos who had been killed during fighting in Faryab province.”

"We as an agency will do everything in order to hasten the moment when the families of Konstantin Yaroshenko and Viktor Bout will reunite[,] when Roman Seleznyov and our other compatriots who have ended up in such a tough predicament in life would be able to return home."

In schools in a number of Western countries, children are convinced as part of their curriculum that Jesus Christ was bisexual.”

"The Black Sea area is consistently being turned by Washington and its allies from the area of cooperation … into a zone of military confrontation. This is done deliberately so that another region of the world under the lead of the United States would become unstable.”

“Fighting side by side, our troops and Syrian troops dealt a powerful blow to the terrorists, who were planning to create a global caliphate in Eurasia. … Russians, together with the brotherly nation of Syria, did not just fight for the future of Syria, they fought for the whole world that terrorists were acting against.”

“Our very participation in the negotiations and its support on our part indicates openly that we believe in resolving issues through (mutual) understanding.”

“[N]one of the sanctions have achieved their political goals. But those sanctions have been hiding other things - issues related to the division of markets and the pushing out of competitors. We can see the same processes against Belarus today.”

On multiple topics – Ukraine, cyber attacks, Crimea, Alexey Navalny – Putin made misleading statements after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.

“I’ve heard about some kind of a meat factory. Well, that is nonsense, simply ridiculous. The pipeline is ridiculous too … Well, it’s just nonsense to blame Russia for this.”

“In Reykjavik, for the first time after Joe Biden's seizure of the White House, an official face-to-face contact between the Russian Federation and the United States took place.”

“[It] is a complete distortion of facts to accuse China of suppressing foreign media and denying US journalists visa.”

“There's no surface damage reported for #China's rocket. Burning rocket remnants of #US rocket crashing on a farm in March were described by some US media as ‘leaving comet-like trails’.”