Russian state TV host Dmitry Kiselyov says with a world-low popularity rating, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko can only win the March 31 poll through vote rigging. While Poroshenko has a 9% approval rating, recent polls show he may have a legitimate chance to make the second round.
Russian state media claims two Russian Sukhoi-27 jets “forced” a U.S. B-52 bomber flying over the Baltic Sea to move away from the Russian border. But the U.S. Air Force says the Russian aircraft never “chased” the U.S. bomber away.
TV host Vladimir Solovyov has used U.S. efforts to provide transparency on corruption under Putin to criticize the U.S. prison system. While he is right that the raw numbers paint the U.S. prison system in a dim light, his claims regarding the end of “telephone justice” in Russia are unclear.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says history will “pass a harsh sentence” on Kyiv for the termination of a bilateral friendship treaty. But while Moscow has tried to blame Kyiv for violating the agreement, it is Russia which has clearly acted to violate Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Following the annexation of Crimea, the status of a collection of gold items lent to a Dutch museum prior to the Russian seizure remains in limbo, with both Kyiv and the local museums laying claim to the priceless artifacts.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed the results of Mueller investigation into alleged Russian election meddling are “laughable,” despite more than 30 indictments, several guilty pleas and convictions.
On the one-year anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, RT has issued an anniversary report seeking to shift blame away from the Kremlin by targeting open-source investigator Bellingcat.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called U.S. legislation seeking a detailed report Vladimir Putin’s net worth and assets a “Russophobic fuss.” But labeling calls for accountability as ‘Russophobia’ ignores many inquiries by Russians to establish the facts.
Russian actor Aleksey Serebryakov has come under fire on Russian state media after criticizing the Kremlin for “inciting conflicts” at home and abroad. It is not the first time. Labelling dissidents “anti-Russian” is part of the broader pattern to alienate and silence government critics.
Russian state media has lambasted the Metro Exodus video game for allowing players to take aim at statues of Vladimir Lenin. But from Russian President Putin to far-right bloggers, taking pot shots at the Soviet leader is a national past time.
Russia's PM claims a tougher version of anti-Russian sanctions proposed last year is a “domestic” U.S. affair, unrelated to bilateral ties. But while efforts to pass sanctions in the U.S. have hit domestic hurdles, the sanctions themselves were drafted in reaction to Moscow’s international acts.
Despite attempts at assuring the Russian public that the draft law on the Digital Economy National Program is not intended to “cut off” Russia from the world, critics fear Russia’s own “Great Firewall” is in the offing.
An aid convoy blocked and tens of thousands of Venezuelans crossing the border every day to get food and medicine, a Rossiya 1 correspondent at the Colombian border town of Cucuta reports a “Manufactured Crisis” – saying that people are taking “shopping trips.” But the facts show otherwise.
Despite the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed Russia won’t deploy such weapons “in Europe” if the U.S. does the same. There is evidence Russia already has done so.
“Putin’s chef” denies both the existence of the Wagner Group and his role in bankrolling the mercenary band, which has served everywhere from Ukraine to Syria. But Prigozhin’s claims do not stand up to scrutiny.
Alexander Ionov, vice chairman of the Russian State Duma’s Security Committee, has come out in support of “human rights” activist Maria Butina. He told VOA she never “worked” with Russian state bodies. But the long trail of evidence and links resulting in Butina’s U.S. guilty plea shows otherwise.
After his lawyer’s testy exchange with the judge presiding over the 2016 election meddling case against Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting, company head and “Putin’s chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin misleads, accusing U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller of withholding evidence from the defense.
Sputnik cried “censorship” after Facebook removed 364 Facebook pages and accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” But while Sputnik charged the pages were removed for their politically-motivated content, Facebook says it was a matter of “misrepresentations of their identities.”
Russia’s foreign minister claimed the U.S. Congress is unconstitutionally attacking Trump’s right to conduct foreign policy. The facts, and a bevy of constitutional experts prove him wrong.
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