Media
Sunday 18 August 2019
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Xie Feng
Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
“They have told blatant lies, applauded violence as 'a beautiful sight to behold…'
Read more...A Chinese official in Hong Kong directed his ire at Western politicians he claimed had “applauded violence as 'a beautiful sight to behold'.” He was citing Nancy Pelosi’s words, which did not applaud violence, but praised a peaceful candlelight vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
"On August 15, Norway offered help in the rescue operation. The offer was accepted by the Ministry of Defense."
Read more...Nineteen years after the Kursk submarine disaster, Russian state media present a misleading chronicle of the events -- omitting key facts deemed damaging to Vladimir Putin’s reputation. -
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Rossiya-24
Russian State TV broadcaster
“It was a concert: An ugly action in the center of Moscow.”
Read more...Russian state TV ran a hit piece on a recent opposition rally, claiming it was cooked up abroad by Russia’s enemies while the attendees were primarily interested in music. That report fits into a Kremlin narrative, seeking to neuter protests which have brought thousands to the streets of Moscow. -
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Russian Embassy in South Africa Twitter Account
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
“Thought police is already here - @twitter suspends account of the Russian Embassy in #Syria (!) after it posted factual criticism of the #WhiteHelmets, quoted @mod_russia data. Wasn't verified account yet - only proves "ordinary" accounts not allowed to have differing opinions”
Read more...Twitter did not say why it banned the account in question. However, the Twitter accounts of a number of Russian embassies have repeatedly disseminated false information about the White Helmets. -
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Alexey Martynov
Director of the International Institute of Newly-Established States
“And so, the attempt to organize mass unrest in Moscow through provocations to elicit a extremely harsh police reaction have failed.”
Read more...After protests against a ban on opposition candidates in Moscow’s upcoming municipal elections turned violent, a pro-Kremlin pundit claimed that the protesters had tried to provoke a harsh police response. But journalists and rights organizations say the police crackdown was swift and unprovoked. -
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Sputnik Serbia
Russian government-sponsored web portal
“The persecution of the SPC [Serbian Orthodox Church] in North Macedonia, as well as the latest heightened tensions and pressure on the SPC diocese in Montenegro can be interpreted as part of the wider strategy of the West to counter Orthodoxy.”
Read more...NATO is no enemy of Orthodoxy as several NATO member states are predominantly Christian Orthodox. The Orthodox churches of Montenegro and North Macedonia have been seeking independence even before the break up of Yugoslavia. -
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Margarita Simonyan
RT editor in chief
“And this is what we were fined for … In a story about a children's drawing competition in honor of the ‘Galicia’ SS division, which the Lviv Department of Education organized, we ‘did not provide an alternative point of view’ -- of the Ukrainian authorities.”
Read more...After being fined for breaching U.K. media impartiality rules, RT’s editor in chief Margarita Simonyan weighed in on the penalty via. However, she failed to mention the Salisbury attack, which prompted the spike in offending broadcasts, while downplaying RT's lack of impartiality. -
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Russian Foreign Ministry
"This step clearly shows official Riga's desire to clear its information space from independent and not controlled by the state media outlets."
Read more...The Russian Foreign Ministry claim that Baltnews.lv is “independent” and a non-state-controlled media outlet is false. The news portal is part of the Russian government-owned media conglomerate MIA Rossiya Segodnya. -
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Murad Gazdiev
Reporter, RT International
“The Mueller report did not provide any proof of the troll factory’s ties with the U.S. election interference.”
Read more...The Mueller investigation into the Russian “troll factory’s” interference in U.S. elections and political processes resulted in a grand jury indictment of 13 Russian nationals. IRA and its financial sponsor Concord were also indicted along with Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin. -
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Embassy spokesperson
Embassy of Turkmenistan, Moscow
“It’s an absolute lie [that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has died],” said a representative of the embassy. “We refute these reports.”
Read more...Following reports that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had died, Turkmen embassy officials called the claim an “absolute lie.” And while most signs point towards Berdimuhamedov being alive, in closed societies like Turkmenistan, rumors of the president’s demise are difficult to verify. -
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Twitter Account of Russian Embassy in U.K.
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
"#Ukraine’s language law comes into force, prohibiting Russian from being spoken by doctors and teachers. Clear violation of human rights and #MinskAgreements."
Read more...Ukraine’s new language law does not prohibit doctors from using Russian or any other language with a patient. Doctors can be penalized only if they refuse to speak Ukrainian. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian President
“I didn’t interfere (in the 2016 U.S election) then, and I don’t want to interfere now, and I don’t intend to do it in the future.”
Read more...In U.S. film director Oliver Stone’s latest interview of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president covers a variety of topics -- from former U.S. President Barack Obama’s alleged broken promises to conspiracy theories about Georgian snipers on Ukraine's Euromaidan.
