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Mohammad Javad Zarif
Iran’s Foreign Minister
“Martyr Soleimani was praised by the world for his firmness, humanity, commitment to peace and courage. The peace established today in Afghanistan and Iraq and the defeat of ISIS was more than anything due to General Soleimani’s wisdom and courage.”
Read more...In Zarif’s own words, Soleimani was a war hawk who “sacrificed” peace diplomacy at the price of military advancement. -
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Leonid Bolshov
Chief nuclear safety scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences
"Recently, the ‘Chernobyl’ series filmed by HBO has had a special impact on minds in different countries, including Russia. … [T]his is one of the shots in a hybrid war.”
Read more...HBO’s “Chernobyl” was a produced by a private company and has been praised internationally for its historical accuracy, apart from some flaws. -
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Ricardo Salles
Brazil’s minister of environment
“President Bolsonaro presented a lot of news in regard to the Brazilian position [to fight climate change]” during the Leader’s Summit on Climate in Washington.
Read more...Jair Bolsonaro’s pledges at the U.S.-sponsored summit predated his administration, and his environment minister dropped one of them in 2020. -
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Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology
Creator of Sputnik V vaccine
“BREAKING: #SputnikV study shows that there are significantly more deaths following vaccination with Pfizer than with AstraZeneca vaccine per 1mn administered doses, based on official publicly available data by 13 international health regulators.”
Read more...The Russian vaccine maker grossly misrepresents mortality data for the U.S. Pfizer and U.K. AstraZeneca vaccines. -
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Hulusi Akar
Turkish Minister of Defense
"In fact, Ottoman Armenians lost their lives under the harsh conditions of the First World War, which is when relocation took place. Other Ottoman citizens also died because of epidemics and migrations, as well as acts of sedition spearheaded by gangs and armed groups ...”
Read more...Akar’s reference is to a 1920 U.S.-commissioned report that unequivocally states Armenians were targeted in a state-sponsored massacres. -
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Margarita Simonyan
Editor-in-Chief, RT
“What is the Czechia trying to tell us? That in their private warehouse, without scrutiny, criminals kept weapons in quantities capable of assuring a years-long civil war in an average European state. And they, the Czechs, did nothing about it.”
Read more...The warehouse was not being used by “criminals,” and Russia’s military intelligence unit has been accused of setting off the deadly blasts. -
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Xi Jinping
President of China
“China will promote joint efforts to build a green Belt and Road to benefit the people of all countries.”
Read more...Fossil fuels still make up the majority of China’s global Belt and Road Initiative projects, and they haven’t been good for the environment. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russian Federation
“I mean the recently known facts of a direct attempt to organize a coup d'etat in Belarus and the assassination of the President of this country. At the same time, it is characteristic that even such flagrant actions are not condemned by the so-called collective West.”
Read more...Analysts see a clandestine security service hand in claims of a plot to take down the conspiracy-theory prone Belarusian leader. -
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Hua Chunying
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“However strong it may grow, #China will never seek hegemony, expansion, or a sphere of influence. Nor will China ever engage in an arms race."
Read more...China is bolstering its military presence in South China Sea, while ignoring international rulings that protect neighbors’ maritime rights. -
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus
“Regardless of whatever rhetoric is used to obscure these sanctions, the step is actually aimed at worsening the material well-being of Belarusian citizens and reducing the economic potential of our country – one of the pillars of Belarus' independence.”
Read more...The U.S. eased the sanctions against Belarus when its government eased its totalitarian grip on civil liberties. But last year Belarus resumed repression to keep Lukashenko in power. -
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SANA
Syrian state news agency
“ ‘Now you can return home to sunny Syria, your homeland needs you’ is a phrase spread widely on billboards in streets of Copenhagen, the Danish capital, in a campaign that confirms the fact that Syria became safe after most of its territories have been liberated from terrorism.”
Read more...The billboards were from an anti-immigrant group. In fact, Syrian refugees face many dangers returning to regime-controlled territory. -
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Andrei Kelin
Russian Ambassador to the U.K.
“Navalny has been treated in the hospital, which lies not so far from the place where he is serving his sentence, and, as I understand he does not complain anymore about his pains.”
Read more...Doctors warn of further deterioration of the Russian dissident Alexey Navalny’s health. No independent information about his condition is available.
