Misleading

“I think ‘absurd’ is exactly the right word. The idea that the crown prince would hack Jeff Bezos’ phone is absolutely silly.”

We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.

“I am Russian by birth. … I did not restore my citizenship; I always kept it.”

“In Russia, the presumption of consent to a posthumous [organ] donation may be introduced.”

“Not a single country in the world has hypersonic weapons, let alone hypersonic weapons of intercontinental range.”

“We are not moving toward closing off the internet and are not going to do that.”

“[A] titanic battle between American nationalism and American liberal globalism. Donald Trump embodies the first camp, and half of the Americans support him on this issue, believing that the U.S. spends too much [in terms of] manpower and resources on foreign policy. Liberal globalism is represented in this by the deep state, which hates the president and is doing everything to maximally complicate Trump’s life in Washington.”

“He is a cruel and blood-thirsty person. In just one of the attacks in which he took part, he killed 98 people. He was one of the organizers of explosions in the Moscow metro.”

“Every Thursday we had a chicken day in prison. Chicken day was always a fight for chicken. Because chicken legs are small, and you want to eat. That is the only real meat they give – not [meat] substitute, but real meat … And the bananas – for some reason, bananas proved scarce in America. They gave bananas only on holidays. That there aren’t bananas in America – it’s actually a forage crop, I don’t know! There was a shortage of these – chicken and bananas.”

While ‘brain dead’ @NATO annual #military budget exeeds [sic] $1 trillion, #Russia spends on defence 23 times less (only $46 bln). Neretheless, [sic] #fake Russian threat is used to justify even more waste of taxpayers’ $. Good for business strategy, dangerous for intl. peace & security”

“Russia categorically rejects all allegations of involvement in the crash and has repeatedly stated that the investigation is biased.”

“Transnistria is an independent state.”