Media
Thursday 15 April 2021
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“The relevant authorities in the Kingdom took all possible measures within our legal system to ensure that these individuals were properly investigated and to ensure that justice was served.”
The Saudi trial in the Khashoggi murder case was conducted in secrecy. Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has not been held accountable. -
“Infertility is one of the long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Source: Social MediaClaims that COVID-19 vaccines result in sterilization are baseless: Scientists and health professionals find no link between the vaccines and fertility. -
“Animal market in Bangkok could be the place that brought corona to Wuhan”
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“There was no political motive; it had nothing to do with protests.”
Russian schools have been trying to dissuade young people from protests for years. -
“While China is committed to transparency and global collaboration in the fight against COVID-19, some Western media like the [New York] Times … mislead the public over China out of self-interest.”
Beijing nitpicks The New York Times while flooding the zone with conspiracies and disinfo. -
“The NATO members instructed the ‘opposition,’ and in fact their agents of influence, how to continue to conduct subversive work ‘more cunningly.’”
Claims that the West is behind nationwide protests over Alexey Navalny’s incarceration are a staple of Kremlin disinformation. -
“We consider the deprivation of three Ukrainian media outlets … contrary to the laws of Ukraine and Kyiv's international obligations to protect freedom of speech.”
Ukraine recently banned several TV channels because of their owner’s ties to Russian proxy forces occupying part of Ukraine as well as the disinformation they spread. -
"There is no repression, there are measures taken by the police against violators of the law — against participants in illegal actions.”
Security forces suppress the constitutional right to assemble, as journalists are harassed and jailed. -
"It is unnecessary to talk about any significant impact” on the political situation in Russia.
The poisoning, prosecution and imprisonment of Vladimir Putin’s chief opponent sparked significant nationwide protests and stinging global criticism. -
“The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk actually recognized [the 'Donetsk and Luhansk republics'] as separate states.”
Kravchuk, who was Ukraine’s first elected president, was referring to negotiations and does not recognize the self-proclaimed rebel “states” in the Donbas region. -
"We said that it wasn’t true and that speculations about President Putin’s relation to some facilities in Gelendzhik were untrue. It is just a lie.”
Considerable evidence suggests a palatial estate on the Black Sea was built for Vladimir Putin’s use, even if the Russian president does not own it. -
“The experts openly said: These are not different options, but successive steps to conquer the world and take it under the unified strict control of corporations, elected by no one and not responsible to anyone.”
Russian commentator Anatoly Wasserman resurrects a fantastical theory that the U.S. planned the coronavirus pandemic years ago.