United States
Tuesday 17 July 2018
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russian Federation
“Let me remind you that both Russian and American military acquired useful experience of coordination of their actions, established the operational channels of communication, which permit it to avoid dangerous incidents and unintentional collisions in the air and in (on) the ground.”
Read more...Russian air forces on multiple occasions conducted dangerous operations with the U.S. Navy and the Russian ground paramilitary troops intentionally created “close military encounters” with NATO and U.S. forces -- in Syria at least on one occasion. -
Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter Account
Official social media account
“While the useless military bloc #НАТО (NATO) accuses us of provocative activities and continues to gnash its teeth in Brussels, we are preparing to watch #ЧМ2018 (World Cup 2018)”
Read more...NATO has grown from 12 founding states to 29 nations. And when the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5, which states that an attack on any member state is an attack on all members. -
Tsargrad.tv
Orthodox Christian TV channel in Russia
“The results of a poll conducted by the Gallup Institute showed that in 2018 only 47% of Americans are proud of their country.”
Read more...Gallup used a scale from “extremely” to “not at all” to determine how proud Americans are of their country. The actual number of these who said they are proud is 95%, while 3% responded they are “not at all proud.” The Russian media misrepresented the Gallup results, using only the 47% of those who said they are “extremely” proud as the total number. -
Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom
“Americans always said they had no troops in Ukraine.”
Read more...There are no U.S. troops engaged in combat in Ukraine and the deployment of military personnel in Ukraine for training purposes was publicly announced in advance. -
Dmitry Mikheyev
Dean, Moscow International Business School
"The issue of migration to the United States is not so acute. The outflow of Mexicans to their homeland is now higher than the influx into the States. The number illegally arriving in the country has also decreased.”
Read more...While Dmitry Mikheyev and RT find a kernel of truth in the U.S. immigration issue, the Russian government media agency promotes a narrative that ignores the complexity of the illegal migration to the U.S. and the context of the political debate. -
Steven Seagal
Actor, musician, martial artist
“I am sure that President Putin … is trying to create a situation in which the balance of powers is more stable, and a little more logical and predictable” [as quoted in Russian].
Read more...With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, along with numerous Russian snap military drills and violations of the airspace of neighboring countries, Putin has made the balance of power less stable and far less predictable. -
Alexander Karpushin
Russian Ambassador to Albania
“[T]he main objectives of Russia here are the building of economic cooperation with mutual benefits and the maintenance of sustainable cultural and humanitarian ties with the Balkan peoples. All this certainly applies to Albania. Any other speculation about Russia's ‘aggressive plans’ or ‘expansionist appetites’ is nothing more than part of a major Western strategy to portray Russia as an imaginary enemy of NATO and the EU.”
Read more...Russia has annexed foreign territory, is involved in several regional conflicts, and has reportedly been meddling in sovereign countries’ domestic politics, including in the Balkans. Moscow has repeatedly said it sees NATO as an enemy and a threat to Russia’s national interests. -
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russian film director, TV host
"A veteran of the anti-Russian direction at CNN, Jill Dougherty said: “Much insane news from Ukraine. It’s good news that Babchenko is alive, but it’s a huge blow to Ukraine's reputation; after all, nobody is going to trust their words anymore."
Read more...The mistranslation of the quote could only have been intentional, which means that Russian TV used the American journalist’s words as part of its propaganda war against Ukraine. -
Sergei Ilyin
Radio Sputnik
"Some of the people, supposedly repressed for political reasons, whose release Washington is calling for, have been convicted of grave crimes such as terrorism and murder. Their guilt has been completely and exhaustively proven."
Read more...The three men named in the article have been convicted based on extremely dubious evidence, hence the accusation that their incarceration is politically motivated. -
USA Really
"News" agency linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency
“All of the peaceful actions in Washington, which our team at USA Really have planned for people, have been banned.”
Read more...The organizer, USA Really, did not provide any documentary proof that they applied for a permit to demonstrate and that their application was rejected by the U.S. authorities. -
Kansas City Star
Newspaper
“The three southwest Kansas men recently convicted in a militia plot to bomb Somali immigrants may have been motivated by Russian manipulation of U.S. social media, a terrorism expert says.”
Read more...While the three men convicted of planning a terrorist attack on Somali refugees were extremely active on Facebook, it is not clear if they saw or shared any of the Russian Facebook ads with anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant rhetoric. -
Semyon Slepakov
Russian TV Comedy host and singer
“Russia is ready to host the World Cup. The stadiums are open. The cops are polyglots. That is a quick recap of many years of work.We're not going to lose face in front of the planet. It’s not for nothing we terrified [the planet] with a missile. In general, all is well. But there is only one “but”: Our team, frankly, is sh-t.”
Read more...The International Federation of Football Association, the world soccer authority better known as FIFA, ranked Russia’s national team #70 and labeled it a “worst mover.”