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December 13, 2019
Update: A Killing in Berlin, And Putin’s Misleading Claims About A “Blood-Thirsty” Chechen

Despite an assertion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former Chechen fighter assassinated in Berlin was not on Russia’s terrorist list and had not been accused in any of the seven Moscow metro bombings since 1996.
December 09, 2019
Russia's Response to Olympic Ban: 'Chronic Anti-Russian Hysteria'

The World Anti-Doping Agency said clean athletes from Russia may compete in the 2020 Olympic games but not under the Russian flag or any other symbols of the Russian state.
December 03, 2019
Russian ‘Troll Farm’ Posts Ersatz Report on Hong Kong Thanksgiving Rally

RIAFAN, a news agency affiliated with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s “troll farm,” manipulated facts and falsified quotes in reporting from a Thanksgiving rally in Hong Kong.
November 29, 2019
Russia Exaggerates Apple’s Move to Label Crimea as Russian

Apple changed its weather application to display Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the city of Sevastopol as Russian territory, but only when viewed inside Russia. Russian media and politicians omitted that detail when announcing the changes.
November 27, 2019
Impending Olympic Ban And The 'West's Anti-Russia Conspiracy'

The World Anti-Doping Agency decision followed an internationally recognized fully transparent procedure, including a thorough investigation and extending the deadline for Russia to rectify its doping violations, which Moscow failed to do.
November 25, 2019
F-35 ‘Epic Failure’ Intercepting Russian Bomber Tu-160 an Epic Fake

While it was a top news item in Russia, the incident never took place, and along with being fake, the report’s details describing the aircraft allegedly involved are inaccurate.
November 22, 2019
Despite Denials, Putin’s Approval of Wagner Well Documented

Putin has publicly approved of using private military companies abroad, awarded Russia’s Order of Courage to Wagner’s commander, and praised Wagner for military success in Syria.
November 20, 2019
Russian TV’s False Claims About Morales, Pompeo

After Evo Morales resigned as Bolivia’s president this month during mass protests, Mexico granted him asylum; Mike Pompeo did not say that the United States “deliberately tore off Ukraine from Russia.”
November 18, 2019
Russia and Syria: U.S.-backed Syrian Forces Blocking Refugee Return

The Pentagon rejected these accusations as “patently false,” and independent analyst and sources in the Rukban camp told Polygraph.info the Russian and Syrian claims are false.
November 05, 2019
Erdogan Calls U.S. House of Representatives’ Resolution on Armenian Genocide ‘Slander’

Despite Turkey’s denial, the Ottoman Empire’s mass killing, deportation and starvation of the Armenians in the 20th Century is a well-documented historic event widely recognized as genocide.
October 30, 2019
Russia Campaigns to Undermine U.S. Operation that Killed al-Baghdadi

Russia responded to the U.S. operation that killed al-Baghdadi with a disinformation campaign aimed at raising doubts about the success of the operation or whether it took place at all. However, there is evidence the U.S. conducted the operation and that al-Baghdadi was killed as a result.
October 21, 2019
Russian Media Falsely Attributes a Conspiracy Quote to Zbigniew Brzezinski

The quote has been recycled from the Soviet Union propaganda and has been circulating in Russian media and political circles for decades. However, it does not exist in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s texts or speeches.
October 16, 2019
Russian State News Agency Claims Two UN Committees Strike in Support of Russia

The United Nations First and Sixth committees both had procedural delays in their October 14 sessions: one due to the issues with the Iranian delegations, the second – per requests from the Ukrainian and the U.S. representatives.
October 09, 2019
Russia Responded to WADA Data Manipulation Inquiry with ‘Lies and Propaganda’

WADA did not reveal the data its investigators retrieved from the Moscow lab, but the bits of information from the agency’s public reports suggest there were only 47 uncompromised cases while hundreds are said to have “inconsistencies.”
October 07, 2019
Russia Was Behind Giuliani’s Invitation to Armenia

In accordance with an agreement signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a commission in Russia decides who will be invited to participate in and speak at meetings of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) Supreme Council.
September 30, 2019
Russian Media Compares Greta Thunberg with ISIS Terrorists and Adolf Hitler

The attacks on Greta Thunberg's data credibility are baseless and while she is not an environmental scientist, scientists say she uses reliable data in her speeches and her activism inspires millions worldwide.
September 23, 2019
Russia Insults and Misquotes a U.S. Air Force Commander

The commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, outlined a defense plan in response to potential Russian aggression, not a plan to conquer the Russian territory. Moscow responded with insulting comments about words he did not speak.
September 19, 2019
False: Russian Claim Georgia Denied USNS Yuma Entry to its Black Sea Port

Russia’s media pushed stories about Georgia denying a U.S. Navy vessel entry to its Black Sea port, raising questions about U.S.-Georgia relations. The news was fabricated.
September 09, 2019
Russia Claims Paul Whelan Not Isolated, But Hasn’t Let Him Phone His Family

Russian authorities have refused to let Paul Whelan have a single phone call with his family during his eight-month incarceration in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. Whelan’s mail correspondence with his family is censored and takes up to two months each way to arrive.
September 04, 2019
Russian Robot FEDOR Tweeted from Space a Plagiarized Picture of Earth

The picture of Earth from space that Robot FEDOR tweeted as its own is 9 years old and belongs to the American Astronaut Douglas Wheelock, who first tweeted it in 2010

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