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Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
“We in Russia must not allow, will not allow any aggressive, disrespectful demonstration of one's ethnicity towards the representatives of any nationality, nor will we allow any foreign conflicts of this kind ... ”
Read more...As with race elsewhere, ethnicity in Russia has been the basis for discrimination, law enforcement profiling and violence against minorities. -
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Hua Chunying
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“There is still a big question mark over the lab at Fort Detrick."
Read more...China continues to tout evidence-free U.S.biolab conspiracy to deflect from serious questions about pandemic origins. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
“MFA spox #Zakharova: #NATO keeps using mythical Russian aggression to justify increase of military funding and potential, the biggest since #ColdWar, incl on the eastern flank.”
Read more...Russia continues to occupy large parts of Ukraine. Russian-backed forces in Donbas have escalated the fighting with deadly results. -
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Hua Chunying
Spokesperson, Chinese Foreign Ministry
“China never asks others to receive Chinese vaccines.”
Read more...China made inoculation with a Chinese vaccine mandatory for foreigners seeking an entry visa, regardless of whether such a vaccine is available or approved in the applicants’ countries of residence. -
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Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister of Thailand
"Thailand will not turn them away … When they are in trouble, we will not deny them entry to our country.”
Read more...Razor wire and border troops belie claim that refugees are met with open arms. -
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Kazakhstan's U.S. Embassy Twitter account
Official social media account
Kazakhstan has a “multiparty democratic system and open civil society.”
Read more...Kazakhstan had the same president from 1991 until 2019 and has been credibly accused of electoral and civil rights failings. -
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Joe Biden
U.S. president
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
Read more...At his first formal news conference as president, Joe Biden cited some incorrect stats about the number of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. -
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Russia Embassy in the United Kingdom
Embassy Twitter account
“#OTD in 1999 #NATO started its military aggression against #Yugoslavia. During the barbaric bombings over 2000 peaceful civilians, incl children, lost their lives. That @NATO aggression became the first armed offense against a sovereign state in Europe since the end of #WWII.”
Read more...The Russian tweet misstates civilian casualty figures, omits the context of ethnic cleansing and ignores Soviet history. -
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Daniel Ortega
President of Nicaragua
“The vaccine will come for everyone.”
Read more...Observers say the Ortega government does not have enough vaccine and has not been open about how it will get more or pay for it. -
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RT (Russia Today)
Russian state-owned media outlet
“First, coronavirus came for your grandparents. And then, it came for ... Well, that was it really.”
Read more...Although COVID-19 is most lethal in ages 65 and older, young people still are at risk of death or long-term harm and can spread the virus to others. -
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Teodosie Petrescu
archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tomis, Romania
“There is no way he could have swallowed a 100 ml of water from the gesture I saw. He died from choking on mother’s milk. His parents overfed him.”
Read more...After being submerged in baptismal water three times, an infant boy turned blue. Paramedics could not save him; he died at a hospital with 100 ml of water in his lungs. -
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Kadara.ru
“The Pentagon reported the theft of the latest Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile by Russian soldiers.”
Read more...The Pentagon did not make such an announcement; Block IV is not the newest Tomahawk missile; the “news” originated from a false interpretation of a dated media report.
