Media
Monday 16 July 2018
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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. -
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. -
Russian Defense Ministry
“Not a single anti-aircraft missile system of the armed forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border.”
Read more...The International Joint Investigation Team discovered and published detailed evidence proving that the “Buk” missile system used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board, belonged to and was deployed by Russia. -
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. -
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
I am opposed to raising the retirement age [in Russia]. As long as I am president, no such decision will be made. Altogether, I believe that there is no need in our country to raise the retirement age. We can and need to boost the economy and the interest of people to continue working but without infringing on their rights to retirement. I will say this again: I am against raising the retirement age.
Read more...While Putin’s said in 2005 that the retirement age would not be raised as long as he was president, the Russian government has decided to raise the retirement age 8 years to age 63 for women, and five years to age 65 for men. Putin’s press secretary says Putin was not involved in the recent decision to raise the retirement age in Russia. -
Eduard Sharmazanov
Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly, press secretary of the Republican Party, Armenia
“Manvel Grigoryan does not accept fabricated charges against him.”
Read more...The evidence presented by the Armenian security service against General Manvel Grigoryan was sufficient for his colleagues at the Parliament to strip him off his parliamentary immunity, for the Republican Party to call his actions “disgusting” and for his son to resign from the office of the mayor of Grigoryan’s home city. -
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. -
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as representatives of many political movements do.”
Read more...Russia’s political system ranked is “authoritarian,” the country’s World Freedom score is consistent with “Not free” by Freedom House, based on lacking political rights, civil liberties and press freedom. -
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“We did not leave it [G-7], our colleagues refused to come to Russia due to known reasons at some point. Please, we will be glad to see everyone in Moscow.”
Read more...As Putin said, the G-7 members did refuse to come to Russia in 2014 due to Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine; however, Putin’s claim that Russia has not left G-7 is not true – Russia officially declared permanent withdrawal from the club in 2017.