Media
Monday 1 October 2018
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“The international company Ipsos is researching RT’s audience at our request. According to the company’s data, over the course of the last two years our audience has grown by one-third. 100 million people in 47 countries are now watching RT every week. RT’s Website in Arabic has beaten all other Arabic language channels, including the famous Al Jazeera and Al Arabyia, in terms of the number of visitors. Our Spanish Website is outpacing the BBC and CNN in Spanish.”
While RT in English is facing a credibility crisis, the Russian state media outlet’s audience in Arabic and Spanish languages is growing. However, Simonyan withheld information about multiple legal charges RT is facing internationally. -
"A new portion of fake news about Petrov and Boshirov was presented immediately after the speech of [UK Prime Minister] Theresa May in the UN Security Council focusing on weapons of mass destruction, during which she repeated accusations against Russia. There is no evidence, so they continue the information campaign, the main task of which is to divert attention from the main question: 'What happened in Salisbury?' The question is: when will there be any evidence of the involvement of anyone, as London tells us, of poisoning in Salisbury?"
Evidence strongly suggests that “Petrov” and “Boshirov” are Russian intelligence agents and involved in the Salisbury poisoning. -
“It [the 2008 Russian-Georgian War] was an operation for the enforcement of peace.”
International organizations and Russia recognized the conflict in Georgia in 2008 as a war. -
“All the time we are accustomed to believe that the international audience does not love us, that they particularly don’t love Putin and all of us who are close to him or live in his country. I’m always arguing with my acquaintances and friends …who love to repeat the phrase – ‘the whole world is against us’… I always want to point out to my friends: ‘And what, China isn’t the world, India isn’t the world, the Arab world, almost all of which is completely on our side -- well a significant part of it -- isn’t the world? Latin America isn’t the world? They don’t respect other nations, because for those people, the world is the Western world, and not just people from the so-called Western world, but the Western establishment…”
Despite the RT head’s claim that opposition to Russia and its leader is strictly the purview of Western powers-that-be, international polling shows that Putin is by no means supported by a global majority. -
Would Visiting the U.S. Help Vladimir Putin ‘Humanize' His Adversary? Fact: Putin Visited Nine Times
“Indeed it is arguable that without his prolonged visit to the U.S. in 1959, Khrushchev may not have been so willing to accommodate JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis three years later in 1962 – the reason being that only in visiting the country or countries of his adversaries is a leader able to humanize it beyond the realm of geopolitical differences. In 2018, due to the unbounded anti-Russia fever that has Washington in its grip, it is highly unlikely that any such visit to the U.S. by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be taking place anytime soon, nor to Russia by his U.S. counterpart, President Trump. In this respect at least, the hard lessons of the twentieth century have been lost.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has much more experience “visiting the country of his adversaries,” with his nine publicly known visits to the U.S., than did Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who only visited America once. Thus, the author’s argument is baseless. -
“We do not regard his [Viktor Zolotov, Director of the National Guard] words as a physical threat.”
Zolotov’s words constitute a direct physical threat under the Article 119 of Russia’s criminal code. Besides, in his public statement, Zolotov urged Navalny to take his promise with all due seriousness. -
“In general, the situation during the united Election Day remained calm.”
Independent media reported clashes between the protesters and the police with scores detained in multiple regions during the election day in Russia. -
“Same place, same corridor, same time. Either they just simply put the same date and exact time on these photos, or Russian Military Intelligence agents have learned to walk simultaneously while appearing in two different photographs.”
The men are not walking through the same corridor. The TV producers might have cropped the photo on screen to make it more difficult to notice that both photos are taken at slightly different angles, indicating different cameras in different corridors. -
“The president of France slanders us because we slander him.”... “The longer you watch, the more upset Hillary Clinton becomes.”
RT’s message board trolls the French president and the American government with messages that recall findings that Russian hackers interfered with elections in the two countries. The state information agency takes pride in the ad campaign’s notoriety. -
“The city has changed dramatically in recent years; bicycle paths have appeared, the historical center has been restored. Now there's greenery everywhere. Omsk is becoming an eco-friendly, modern city.”
Not all the footage Vesti used in its report about Vladimir Putin’s visit to Omsk was of Omsk. Russia’s biggest TV channel showed footage of Moscow but said it was Omsk -- rated number four in Russia's ten most depressive cities -
”On July 4, 2016, the Polish side temporarily suspended the Agreement on Local Border Traffic under the pretext of holding the NATO Summit in Warsaw and the World Youth Day in Krakow... The events that triggered the above actions by Warsaw have long passed. But the Polish side is not eager to end the impasse, which is very surprising…As of today, Poland does not show interest in resuming the LBT. As a result, people's interests on both sides of the border are affected.”
Open border policy and free movement of goods and people is one of the founding principles of the European Union. However, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, armed conflict in Ukraine and buildup of troops inside Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, abused the EU’s willingness to open its borders to Russia. -
“At an exhibition of trophy weapons captured in Syria, held in the Moscow region near Kubinka as part of the forum "Army-2018,” the Russian Ministry of Defense showed the US anti-tank missile system (ATGM) "Javelin.”
The weapon shown in the picture is a French APILAS system, not the Javelin.