Polygraph
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![Hikmet Hajiyev]()
Hikmet Hajiyev
Advisor to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev
“Armenia's kamikadze dron[e] was successfully destroyed by Azerbaijan's air defence forces. Dron[e] was whirling around civilian area. More civilian lives saved. Armenia's state terror continues.”
Read more...The drone appears to be a HAROP, an Israeli-made model used by Azerbaijan’s forces, not those of Armenia. -
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Russian Foreign Ministry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Sergey Lavrov pointed out that any attempts to make a political issue out of the so-called Navalny case, including within the OPCW, were unacceptable...”
Read more...Russia continues to dispute that opposition figure Alexey Navalny was poisoned despite confirmation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. -
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Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The alleged concerns of the United States over Cuba's cooperation, in this case about the ‘More Doctors’ program, are neither legitimate nor pertinent to be discussed at PAHO [Pan American Health Organization].”
Read more...It has been widely reported that the Cuban government has kept the biggest share of its doctors’ salaries in the ‘Mais Medicos’ program in Brazil. -
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Hikmet Hajiyev
Adviser to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev
“Rumors of militants from Syria allegedly being redeployed to Azerbaijan is another provocation by the Armenian side and complete nonsense.”
Read more...There is some evidence that Syrian fighters are in Azerbaijan, although the numbers cited by Armenian sources are questionable. -
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Gerhard Schroeder
Former German chancellor, now Nord Stream 2 chairman
"What is currently being done is essentially speculation, because ... there are no reliable facts."
Read more...Independent labs in Germany, France and Sweden have said Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. -
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Kirill Dmitriev
CEO of Russian Direct Investment Fund
“…Western vaccine manufacturers rely on experimental technologies, little-studied and untested over the long term, facing obstacles during their clinical trials, which … negatively affects efforts to combat the coronavirus.”
Read more...Many of the “Western” COVID-19 vaccine candidates use the same delivery technology as Russia’s Sputnik V. -
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People's Liberation Army Air Force
Air force of the People's Republic of China
Chinese video of a simulated attack on the U.S. territory of Guam shows missiles from H-6 strategic bombers hitting targets on land.
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![Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]()
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The religious freedom and other rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, including the Uighurs, are fully protected. There has [sic] never been any so-called detention camps in Xinjiang.”
Read more...The Australian Strategic Policy Institute found new, extensive evidence of detention centers. Firsthand accounts show Uighurs are forcibly detained and abused. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“… [W]e would like to once again address the U.S. with a suggestion to agree on a comprehensive program of practical measures to reboot our relations in the field of (cyber) security… ”
Read more...U.S. intelligence officials have said they are confident Putin is behind efforts to interfere in the Nov. 3 presidential election. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
"Never, neither on the territory of the Soviet Union nor in the times of the Soviet Union, nor in the times of the Russian Federation nor on the territory of the Russian Federation, was there research that would have had either the direct [name] or the codename Novichok.”
Read more...Novichok was developed and produced in the Soviet Union. Russia has claimed it destroyed its stock of Novichok. -
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Turkish Foreign Ministry
"We categorically reject both the baseless allegations of human rights violations claimed against the Syrian opposition … as well as the groundless criticisms by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights leveled against Turkey …”
Read more...The U.N.’s detailed report identifies specific Turkish-backed units for alleged atrocities. Contradicting Turkey, it also faults Kurdish forces. -
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Jorge Arreaza
Venezuela’s foreign minister
“A report plagued with falsehoods, prepared remotely, without any methodological rigor, by a phantom mission directed against Venezuela and controlled by governments subordinate to Washington, illustrates the perverse practice of engaging in politics with human rights …”
Read more...Human rights abuses in Venezuela have been widely reported in recent years. The latest U.N. report corroborates previous findings.
