Media
Monday 13 July 2020
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
“The appearance of this book testifies to the increasing desire of the Malaysians to form their own opinion about what happened. We believe that the latter is especially important, given how one-sided and engaged in the West this tragedy has been illuminated for years.”
Read more...The author of the book is a Malaysian conspiracy theorist. Based on the title, the work appears to blame the MH17 shootdown over Ukraine on the “Jewish antichrist Illuminati.” -
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Press TV
Iranian state TV channel
“A senior Iranian judge says INTERPOL Red Notices have been issued for the prosecution of dozens of military and political officials of the United States, including President Donald Trump, on charges of planning and implementing a terrorist attack in the Iraqi capital that assassinated Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani and his companions.”
Read more...INTERPOL has denied receiving the request and stated that it does not consider requests for red notices that it believes are “political.” -
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Qatari Ministry of Interior
“EHTERAZ is your trusted smart application to follow up on the latest updates of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Qatar.”
Read more...The Qatari government’s COVID-19 app has been named among the “most dangerous for privacy” by the Amnesty International Security Lab. It’s not alone. Bahrain, China, Iran, Kuwait, Norway and Russia have suspect apps, too. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“[I]t is unfair to claim that the two-day visit to Moscow of Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was the main reason for the start of the Second World War. All the leading countries are to a certain extent responsible for its outbreak.”
Read more...Putin’s view is not shared by most historians. The subsequent Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the USSR and Germany triggered the Nazi invasion of Poland, and it provided Soviet economic aid that made German conquests possible. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
"We do not know about any oligarchs, or about their existence."
Read more...The names may have changed since Russian tycoons rallied around Boris Yeltsin in the early post-Soviet era, but there are still Russian oligarchs aplenty, and they have clout. -
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
Russian national tabloid
"In the news, they are now are talking about the first people killed and even raped in Minneapolis."
Read more...There are no records of rapes in the Minneapolis protests over the death of George Floyd, and only one person died. The claim is consistent with the negative spin Russian media and officials historically have applied when civil crises erupt in the U.S. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state-owned media outlet
“Bogdan Vechirko, who rammed a crowd of rebelling Americans in Minneapolis with a truck, served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was an ardent fan of Donald Trump, writes Strana.ua.”
Read more...The truck driver and the Ukrainian soldier are two different people using the same name. There is no evidence the soldier ever visited the United States, and Ukraine’s military denounced any connection. -
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News Front
a pro-Kremlin news site
“Every fourth American is against taking anti-COVID-19 vaccine.”
Read more...News Front cherry-picked results from a U.S. survey to falsely turn some Americans’ lack of interest in a coronavirus vaccine into outright opposition. -
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Djambulat Umarov
minister of information, Chechen Republic
“Is it true that I ..? Don’t hold your breath!” – Writing on a sign in photo of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic
Read more...Speculation is rife that Kadyrov is being treated in a Moscow hospital for COVD-19. To counter it, his press minister posted a photo of Kadyrov with a full head of hair, though he recently appeared bald in public. -
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Vladimir Chizhov
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the EU
“... American Plan Totality developed on the personal order of Harry Truman after the atomic bombings of Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, to carry out nuclear attacks against 17 major Soviet cities and industrial centres. They were followed by CIA chief Allen Dulles’ Plan aimed at destroying the USSR by means of propaganda, sowing mistrust among nationalities and social groups, and corrupting moral values of the population.”
Read more...Plan Totality was a hypothetical plan for a conventional war in the event of continued Soviet expansion in Europe. The “Dulles Plan” is a complete fabrication first published in the 1980’s which gained popularity in Russia in the 90’s. -
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YouTube/Social media video
"Italian Government call for arrest of Bill Gates."
Read more...The video, its audience amplified with the help of Russian state TV, shows a single Italian parliament member spouting debunked conspiracy claims about Gates, whose foundation hopes to distribute a coronavirus vaccine. -
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Bishop Anton
Archibishop of the Vani and Bagdati Eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church
“It has been transpiring that the current pandemic – as I have been told and also, I watched some programs I was sent via WhatsApp yesterday – is, after all, a bluff. If this pandemic turns out to be a bluff, what would you say then? If it becomes established that this pandemic is a trick, and the world admits that it is a bluff, will that not prove the truth of what that bishop said?”
Read more...With nearly 4.5 million cases and more than 300,000 deaths worldwide, the coronavirus is neither a “bluff” nor a “trick.” Containment efforts have devastated the global economy and may extend for many months.
