Polygraph
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![Ranil Wickremesinghe]()
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
“We are now participating in the negotiations as a bankrupt country. Therefore, we have to face a more difficult and complicated situation.”
Read more...Sri Lanka’s talks with the IMF are difficult because of its history of corruption and economic mismanagement. -
![Dmitry Polyanskiy]()
Dmitry Polyanskiy
Russian first deputy U.N. ambassador
“In this video the Ukrainian officer swears that his colleagues hastily did many things wrong with the set up: placed the corpses in a wrong way, brought too few women, some of the ‘corpses’ move etc.”
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![Alexander Grushko]()
Alexander Grushko
Russian deputy foreign Minister
"We do not want a return to the Cold War. It is NATO that is imposing it on us. We are not expanding; we are not setting up our bases somewhere ..."
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Multiple Russian media outlets
“Telegraph: The West will cut aid to Ukraine because of the futility of supporting Kyiv.”
Read more...Russian media misquoted and distorted The Telegraph report to fit Kremlin propaganda narratives. -
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RT
Russian state broadcaster
“Covid-19 may have originated in US biolab – Lancet chair”
Source: RT, July 1, 2022Read more...This headline and others oversimplified what two Columbia University academics actually said. Origins of the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic remain in dispute. -
![Muhammadu Buhari]()
Muhammadu Buhari
President of Nigeria
“We leave Nigeria in a far better place than we found it.”
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Chinese embassy, New Zealand
“[New Zealand’s claim that] ‘China has in recent times also become more assertive and more willing to challenge international rules and norms’ is wrong and thus regrettable.”
Read more...The aims of China’s new Solomon Island security pact are murky, but the country’s aggression in the South China Sea is undeniable. -
![Igor Konashenkov]()
Igor Konashenkov
Spokesman, Russian Defense Ministry
"On June 30, as a gesture of goodwill, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation completed their assigned tasks on Snake Island and withdrew the garrison stationed there."
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![Abdul Salam Hanafi]()
Abdul Salam Hanafi
Taliban acting deputy prime minister
“Different people with different views are going to gather ... this will be a positive step for stability in Afghanistan and strengthening national unity.”
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![Olga Kovitidi]()
Olga Kovitidi
Russian senator, occupied Crimea
“Russia's reputation is improving, confirmed by the ability of Russians to fulfill their obligations in any extreme circumstances.”
Read more...Analysts say the Eurobond default, a result of sanctions, will hurt Russia's credit ratings, market access, financing costs and the ruble for years to come. -
![Yi Ping Hai An (一玶海岸)]()
Yi Ping Hai An (一玶海岸)
Weibo influencer
“The United States military does not recognize the United States Supreme Court revoking the constitutional right to abortion, which could turn into a constitutional crisis in the United States.”
Read more...The writer, popular on China’s Twitter-like platform, distorts the U.S. defense secretary’s comments after last week’s Supreme Court ruling. -
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Tsargrad TV
“Bucha 2.0: Kyiv unleashes an explosion in Kremenchug. What is known so far.”
Read more...Russia fires off falsehoods to spread confusion about its deadly missile strike on a Kremenchug mall.
