United States
Saturday 21 September 2019
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Aleksandr Lukashevich
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
“Quasi-state entity in Kosovo is a failure. Growing number of countries, which revoked recognition of its ‘independence’ confirms it.”
Read more...The newest European state has a permanent population that overwhelmingly supports independence, a defined territory, a government and its own constitution, and has established relations with 115 states. The U.S. is taking decisive steps to secure Kosovo’s international integration. -
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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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Vesti News
YouTube channel
“Funding Both Sides? Bulgarian Journalists Reveal US Selling Weapons to Terror Groups in Yemen!”
Read more...Russian TV has seized on a Bulgarian journalist’s report to claim the U.S. is covertly selling weapons to Islamic State in Yemen. The Bulgarian journalist, however, often jumps to conclusions not backed by evidence, while the Russian media report makes unsubstantiated claims. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Spokesman
“Indeed, Smolenkov worked in the presidential administration, but he was dismissed several years ago by an internal order; his position was not related to the category of senior officials…”
Read more...After reports the CIA extracted one of its most valuable assets from Russia in 2017, the the Kremlin's spokesman downplayed the alleged spy as a non-senior official who was fired years ago. However, the alleged CIA asset held a “top group” civil service rank equal to a major general in the military. -
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Press TV
Iranian State-Owned Media Outlet
“In 2009, independent research conducted by a team of international scientists discovered, after analyzing some dust samples from the debris in the area where the skyscrapers collapsed, that they all contained a red layer of active thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology.”
Read more...The claim was debunked years ago. The “research” cited in the article did not actually find “thermitic material,” and thermite and similar compounds are not used – and, in fact, cannot be used -- in controlled demolitions. -
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Russian Foreign Ministry
“The Russian government regularly provides consular access to Whelan. What kind of isolation are we talking about?”
Read more...Russian authorities have refused to let Paul Whelan have a single phone call with his family during his eight-month incarceration in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. Whelan’s mail correspondence with his family is censored and takes up to two months each way to arrive. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
Russian Government Ministry
“There are numerous casualties and destruction in the settlements subjected to the American strike.”
Read more...While Russian and Syrian government air and artillery strikes regularly pound civilian targets in Idlib, the U.S. strike, while questionable, hit a training camp used by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group. -
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Robot FEDOR
Android Skybot F-850
“Admiring our Earth from the porthole of Soyuz-MS14 at the end of the working day. She is beautiful. Studying and exploring space makes people smarter and makes them work together. And we, machines made by humans, are ready to help our creators go further.”
Read more...The picture of Earth from space that Robot FEDOR tweeted as its own is 9 years old and belongs to the American Astronaut Douglas Wheelock, who first tweeted it in 2010 -
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RT
anonymous author
“How this made Kyiv more suitable to be invited to the club of leading economies, even as a guest, Tusk did not explain.”
Read more...After the EU Council President Donald Tusk said Ukraine would be a better fit than Russia for the next G7 summit, RT claimed Tusk had failed to justify that suggestion based on Ukraine's economic woes. Tusk, however, was clearly arguing on behalf of Ukraine's democratic and not economic advances. -
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Head of Chechen Republic
“I am on every existing sanctions list in the world, and I cannot travel anywhere. Why? Only because I am defending the rights of Muslims. Their morals, customs, traditions – that is the only reason I am on these lists, nothing else.”
Read more...Ramzan Kadyrov has been blacklisted for atrocities against civilians that, according to Human Rights Watch, are “so widespread and systematic, they constitute crimes against humanity.” Based on data from well-documented human rights cases, the absolute majority of Kadyrov’s victims are Muslims. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential spokesman
“The Kremlin is not responsible for stations transmitting radiation signals.”
Read more...Following reports that a nuclear-powered “Skyfall” cruise missile test in northern Russia went south, two Russian nuclear monitoring stations closest to the test site went offline. Amid fears of nuclear fallout, the Kremlin claims it is not responsible for the facilities. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“In the field of sports, there are power battles which are mainly aimed at ensuring that an Anglo-Saxon group of states determines the rules, including with regards to the use of doping.”
Read more...Russia’s foreign minister has claimed an “Anglo-Saxon” group of states is dictating anti-doping policies to the world. Current anti-doping rules follow the World Anti-Doping Code first introduced in 1999 in Switzerland, to which 660 sports organizations, including Russia’s, are signatories.
