Polygraph
Friday 7 February 2025
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Cyril Ramaphosa
South African president
“The recently adopted Expropriation Act is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process that ensures public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution.”
Read more...The Expropriation Act allows the South African government to seize land, in the name of public interest, with or without compensation. Its purpose is to repossess land and distribute it to address what the government refers to as historical injustices. -
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Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia
“In the heat of candor, the leader of the Bandera regime admitted that he and his comrades had embezzled $100 billion.”
Read more...There is no missing or laundered U.S. aid to Ukraine. Congress allocated $174 billion for U.S. weapons manufacturing, military and nonmilitary support in Ukraine, and regional assistance as intended. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“The president of Ukraine, even under conditions of martial law, has no right to extend his powers. ... If we start negotiations now, they will be illegitimate.”
Read more...Ukraine invoked martial law in 2022 following Russia’s military invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidential term would have ended in May 2023, but the country’s constitution prevents lifting martial law and bans elections while Ukraine is at war. This means Zelenskyy remains in office legitimately. -
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Rospotrebnadzor
Russia State Consumer Watchdog
"The activities of this laboratory are financed by the US Agency for International Development and the French Merieux Foundation. This circumstance once again confirms the irresponsible approach of Western countries when working with dangerous infections in the territory of third countries, when biological facilities are created without the proper infrastructure and samples of pathogens of dangerous diseases are accumulated without control."
Read more...The INRB lab in Goma is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies that meet the highest international standards of quality, biosafety and biosecurity. Its purpose is to identify and prevent potentially epidemic diseases. -
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Yvan Gil
Foreign minister of Venezuela
“Now, [Rubio] seeks to support the fantasies of the Guyanese government, which aims to strip us of the historic rights bequeathed to us by our liberators and which are an inalienable part of our sovereignty.”
Read more...The territory in question has been under Guyana’s control for more than a century, and it is Venezuela that has failed to maintain its own obligations to law and peace. -
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Andrey Isayev
Member of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament)
"Trump threatened our president rather rudely, it must be said, pressuring to start the negotiations and reminding of Gadhafi’s fate."
Source: Smotrim.ru, Jan. 27, 2025Read more...The Russian lawmaker attributed to Trump a quote from a deepfake video created by Ukrainian bloggers and shared on the Telegram messaging platform. -
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Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Corporation
"The ongoing conflict in Eastern DRC, particularly the recent heavy fighting in Goma, was triggered by constant violations of ceasefire by the Congolese Armed Forces in coalition with UN sanctioned militia FDLR, European mercenaries, Ethnic militias (Wazalendo) Burundian armed forces, SMIDRC forces, as well as MUNUSCO."
Read more...The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels triggered the ongoing hostilities by launching an offensive north of Goma, on Oct. 26, 2023, in violation of the Luanda process. -
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Maria Zakharova
Spokesperson of Russian Foreign Ministry
"Ukraine was gradually turning into a testing ground for experiments of any quality with biolabs, obviously with organ trading."
Read more...Russian disinformation narratives about illicit organ harvesting and biological experiments in Ukraine have no basis in fact. Russia intentionally distorts Ukrainian law intended to support vital medical procedures. -
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Kemi Lawrence
Nigerian journalist
"President Trump is a convicted felon, and he cannot enter UAE, UK, Canada, South Africa, Donald Trump cannot enter like 42 countries."
Read more...Some countries have laws that refuse entry to convicted felons. They can still allow entry to a felon with a valid reason. Canada, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom have already invited Trump. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy, once again, called for the occupation of Ukraine by Western troops.”
Read more...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about a potential international peacekeeping mission to deter Russia, not to occupy Ukraine. Under international law, occupation requires foreign control without the host nation’s consent, whereas invited troops do not constitute occupation. -
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African Hub
Content creator
"Burkina Faso ... Paid off debt to the west & has control over resources."
Read more...Burkina Faso has an outstanding external debt estimated at more than $10 billion. Additionally, it owes China an unknown amount of money. A vast majority of its mining fields are owned by French, Russian, Canadian, British and Australian mining companies. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
U.S. uses forced labor by involving inmates in fighting Los Angeles fires, while sanctioning China for using forced labor in Xinjiang.
Read more...In California, qualifying inmates volunteer as firefighters to assist in combating wildfires in Los Angeles. China uses forced labor involving arbitrarily detained Muslims in Xinjiang.
