Misleading
Sunday 25 August 2019
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Official Kremlin Website
Website of the Russian President
“…And we know that Russia has ratified a number of international treaties and conventions, under which the country must provide its citizens with fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and so on. And therefore, so many people were worried about the events that took place in Moscow: arrests and so on, all those detentions that were made by the legal authorities.”
Read more...The Kremlin’s translation of Macron’s comments omits his references to free elections in Russia and free elections in general. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential spokesman
“The Kremlin is not responsible for stations transmitting radiation signals.”
Read more...Following reports that a nuclear-powered “Skyfall” cruise missile test in northern Russia went south, two Russian nuclear monitoring stations closest to the test site went offline. Amid fears of nuclear fallout, the Kremlin claims it is not responsible for the facilities. -
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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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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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RT
Russian state-owned media outlet
“US is using SWIFT as a kind of ‘billy club’ in its foreign policy, expert tells RT”
Read more...The U.S. does not control SWIFT. U.S. authorities have tried to pressure SWIFT at different times, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state-owned media outlet
"A video from the site of an explosion in Cyprus that occurred as a result of the impact of an unidentified object has appeared on the web."
Read more...The object was a Russian-made S-200 surface-to-air missile launched by the Syrian military in response to an Israeli airstrike. RIA Novosti continued to call it an "unidentified object" in its headline. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“The Ukrainian side not only refused to utilize the procedures for release (of the sailors) that already exist in Russian law, but, in principle, even to discuss this issue. Kyiv does not need these sailors; Kyiv needs the uproar surrounding the sailors.”
Read more...In reality, Moscow did not offer to free the Ukrainian sailors and vessels immediately, as ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, but simply to allow Kyiv to participate in Russia’s criminal investigation into the sailors’ alleged violation of its maritime borders. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
“Russia has no intention of becoming similar [to some other countries] imposing their stance by using illegitimate sanctions.”
Read more...After targeting Georgian wine exports and announcing a flight ban following anti-Moscow protests in Tbilisi, the Kremlin claimed no "illegal" sanctions are being employed. However, the so-called "restrictions" from the Russian side are clearly designed to hit Georgia's bottom line. -
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Vladimir Solovyov, Russian TV host
Russian TV host
"We understand the hurt feelings of [Polish President Andrzej] Duda, but it is unclear who insulted him. In any case, it wasn’t Russia and its wasn’t the Russian soldiers, who liberated the great fighting Poles from the Nazis."
Read more...While visiting the U.S., Poland's president spoke of his country's tragic WWII history, spurring a Russian TV host to say that “offense” could not stem from Russia, which "liberated" the Poles from the Nazis.” Missing from those comments, however, was the Soviet Union’s occupation of eastern Poland. -
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Russian UK Embassy Twitter Account
Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account
“Communist past revived in Russian schools”? Another #fake from @thetimes. Law prohibits political activity in Russian public schools. The photo was made at event held by the opposition Communist party.”
Read more...While schools worldwide often promote patriotism, there are reports of Russia's "Young Army" promoting the president, of history altered in textbooks to support state policy, students forced to participate in pro-Putin rallies and disciplined for repeating opposition messages.
