Polygraph
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Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“In general, the division into indigenous, first-class, second-class categories of people and so on – this, for sure, completely smacks of… the theory and practice of Nazi Germany. ... [T]o speak of Russians as a non-indigenous people is not just incorrect, it is ridiculous and stupid.”
Read more...A proposed Ukraine law would grant official status for three indigenous minority groups in Ukraine. -
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s prime minister
"We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy.”
Read more...The longtime prime minister faces ouster, but not because of election irregularities. A new governing coalition is forming to replace him. -
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BELTA
Belarusian state media outlet
“The pilot-in-command however decided to make a turn and head to Minsk. No one forced him to do this, no one gave him such a command. … He could have decided to keep going and left the Belarusian airspace within two minutes.”
Read more...The claim is contradicted by flight data, witnesses, and even earlier statements by Belarus government sources. -
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Xinhua news agency
"I saw heartbreaking scenes of people starving to death on the road before 1949.”
Read more...Yuan Longping on multiple accounts noted 1960, not 1949 as the time when starvation-related death inspired his groundbreaking work. -
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Ali Akbar Salehi
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
“Iran has so far done its utmost efforts to cooperate with the Agency substantively and provide the necessary clarifications and responses.”
Read more...A recent U.N. watchdog report cites evidence that Iran tried to clean up an undeclared nuclear site. European reports say Iran sought weapons tech. -
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian president
“+ 2.3 million [doses] of Pfizer in the beginning of June. Pfizer will arrive in all municipalities.”
Read more...The Brazilian government's pandemic fight has been tainted by mismanagement, negligence, delayed vaccines, ineffective COVID-19 treatments and a Senate investigation. -
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Global Times
Chinese Communist Party newspaper
“US actor and WWE star John Cena on Tuesday apologized on Chinese social media after having falsely indicated that the island of Taiwan is a country in a promotional video for his latest film Fast & Furious 9 to the island's audience.”
Read more...China claims Taiwan, and few countries have official diplomatic relations with the island. Still, Taiwan, has its own government, military, and laws. -
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Viktor Zuev
Virologist and vice president, Russian Academy of Sciences
“You have to work hard to make an artificial virus. All this talk comes from doing nothing. The virus came from animals and there is nothing here to make a fuss about.”
Read more...The World Health Organization and multiple western intelligence agencies consider possible lab origin of the SARS-Cov2 virus plausible. -
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Thai prime minister’s office
“[T]he C.36.3 variant was detected in Thailand. Nonetheless … the variant had actually been found in a person who traveled from Egypt.”
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![Paul Kagame]()
Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda
“There were no crimes committed, absolutely! (In the Democratic Republic of Congo)”
Read more...Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Army under his command stand accused of systematic mass killings of civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following the Rwandan genocide. -
![Dmitry Sablin]()
Dmitry Sablin
Russian parliament
“We can see that everyone has the opportunity to freely cast their ballots, and the election meets all international standards.”
Read more...Widely seen as Bashar al-Assad's coronation, the Syrian election was marked by protests and allegations of staged events and coercion. -
![Hua Chunying]()
Hua Chunying
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“For the last 70-plus years since the founding of the People’s Republic, #China has never started a war or encroached upon a single inch of foreign soil.”
