Russia
Thursday 28 March 2024
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“The oh-so 'peaceful' Iceland is thus trying to keep up with its senior allies in sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.”
Iceland, a nation with no military, is helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, not “sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.” -
“The pope congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as president of the Russian Federation. Pope Francis sees the Vatican as an international platform that could replace some of the U.N. functions."
Source: RIA NovostiThe Vatican told Polygraph.info that Pope Francis did not congratulate Putin on his reelection. RIA Novosti later retracted the report. -
"People are dying in US prisons too, aren’t they?”.
Source: TASS, Marcy 17, 2024The issue is not that people die while incarcerated, but why Navalny and so many other Kremlin critics end up in prison or dead. -
“I am sure that the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet will laugh together today at the fact that their command is wanted by the International Criminal Court... this is just a nothingburger designed to stir up an information wave, nothing more.”
While Russia is a safe haven for suspected criminals, they will be arrested and brought to ICC if they travel to any of the 124 world nations that recognize the world court’s jurisdiction. Regime change in Russia can also end the impunity. -
"They [the U.S.] have recently made unfounded allegations, in particular, against Russia, regarding plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space. … At the same time, they have blocked our proposal… the agreement on preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space, which we drafted back in 2008.”
Russia’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapons into space would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which Moscow signed. -
"BREAKING – ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TUCKER CARLSON: A man has just been arrested in Moscow, accused of being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device on Tucker Carlson's vehicle and assassinate the prominent American journalist while he was there to interview Putin.”
The digitally manipulated origins and distribution patterns of the original report about this alleged assassination attempt display characteristics of the tactic known as disinformation laundering, which Russian state propaganda networks frequently employ. -
"Russia destroyed all stockpiles of its chemical weapons in September 2017, and this was done ahead of schedule. ...the United States was supposed to complete the destruction of declared stockpiles of chemical weapons in 2007, however… it did this only in 2023... During a special military operation, cases of the use of American chemical munitions by the Ukrainian armed forces were recorded.”
Russia’s declared destruction of all its chemical weapons remains an open question. Moscow presented no evidence to international bodies that Ukraine used chemical weapons. -
"The pride of Russia is our Nobel laureates - Sechenov, Butlerov, Kantorovich, and many others."
Ivan Sechenov and Alexander Butlerov did not receive the Nobel Prize, and Leonid Kantorovich received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. -
"The American video hosting platform YouTube has launched a fresh wave of account bans targeting Russian media. … It is the ruthless weeding out of any seedlings of dissent in the media space. Arbitrary actions and political censorship…"
YouTube blocked Russian state media channels for violating its community guidelines. -
Ukraine started the war; Russia’s goal is to stop it. Ukrainians still consider themselves Russians, what is happening is an element of a civil war. The 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine was accomplished by the opposition with the help of CIA. “NATO has options to recognize Russia’s control over the new regions. Russia had to take Crimea under its protection in 2014. We have made so many gestures of goodwill, that we’ve exhausted all limits. Nobody responded to our goodwill gestures with similar gestures...
Putin replayed thoroughly debunked falsehoods and pedaled the Kremlin’s traditional propaganda narratives. -
"We noted the markedly heightened temperature of the rhetoric of official Seoul directed at Moscow that Russia … is allegedly carrying out ‘military-technical cooperation’ with Pyongyang. … [W]e strongly reject any attempts by the U.S. and its satellites to illegitimately accuse our country."
Multiple intelligences confirm Russia’s purchase and use of North Korean military equipment and ammunition. Experts identified the North Korean origin of missiles Russia used to strike Ukraine. -
“In 2014, the Bandera junta in Kyiv downed #Malaysian flight #MH17 over Donbass, taking almost 300 innocent lives.”
An international investigation proved that the Russan Army had provided equipment, weaponry and logistics to Russia-controlled forces to shoot down MH17.