Polygraph
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Leonid Rink
Former director of the lab that developed Novichok
"There would be convulsions and so on. Completely different symptoms."
Read more...The nerve agent Novichok sickened but did not kill ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018, either. Their symptoms were like Alexey Navalny’s. -
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Aleksandr Lukashenko
President of Belarus
“There were American F-16s near Berlin, well, let them stand there. No, they moved them here – 15-20 minutes flying time to our territory. … It is not clear what they were carrying. Maybe nuclear weapons."
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Hakim Hussein Kheirandish
Practitioner of Iranian traditional Islamic medicine
“Eating salt frequently protects from corona infection better than wearing a mask.”
Read more...Several research trials are studying the effect of salt and salt-based solutions against COVID-19. So far, none suggests eating salt instead of wearing a mask. -
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Brigadier General Eskandar Momeni
Head of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters
"Based on reliable information, planes operated by the NATO and the United States transport these illicit drugs in our neighboring country.”
Read more...NATO has been actively engaged in counter-drug trafficking operations in Afghanistan. The Iranians provided no evidence or identifiable sources for their claims, nor did the Russians -- the original source of the claim. -
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Mahmut Gul
Vice Chair of Yeni Refah Partisi (New or Re-Welfare Party)
"[T]he countries belonging to the Western culture do not sign the convention for moral reasons and those who signed it keep on withdrawing from it."
Read more...45 countries and the EU signed the EU Convention on protecting women against violence, and 34 of them ratified it. None have withdrawn from it, but Turkey and Poland are considering doing so. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin press secretary
We do not understand why our German colleagues are in such a hurry to use the word 'poisoning' and so on. The substance must be found first, to understand what caused this condition. There must be grounds for investigation. For now, we are seeing a comatose patient."
Read more...The hospital in Berlin said its diagnosis is based on extensive tests indicating that Alexey Navalny has been poisoned. The fact that someone is in a coma does not prevent an investigation from being launched. -
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Nicolás Maduro
President of Venezuela
"The simple and heartfelt testimony of Norkis Obispo, a warrior from the [Venezuelan] Plains recovered from the Coronavirus, thanks to the treatments, care and care of all health personnel."
Read more...The video paints an optimistic picture of the situation in Venezuela, yet just two days after it was published, the staff at the same hospital went on strike over a lack of equipment and supplies. -
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Viktor Khrenin
Belarusian Minister of Defense
“We cannot calmly watch how, under the flags under which the fascists organized the massacres of Belarusians, Russians, Jews, [and] representatives of other nationalities, actions are being organized today in these sacred places. We cannot allow this!”
Read more...The Belarusian white-red-white tricolor flag has a long history and was first adopted by the Belarusian People’s Republic in 1918. It was again adopted as the national flag in 1991-1995. -
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister
"The deal connects the UAE with Israel; both of them are advanced democracies, and their societies are advanced."
Read more...The United Arab Emirates is a federal monarchy that ranks poorly in terms of human rights and civil liberties. -
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Anonymous law enforcement source
“It is not unlikely that he drank or consumed something yesterday himself.”
Read more...The disinformation started even as Russian anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny was gravely ill from a suspected poisoning. -
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Jeon Kwang-Hun
pastor at Sarang Jeil Church
“Our church took every preventive measure, but the (Moon) administration spread the coronavirus to prevent me from attending this rally.”
Read more...There is no evidence to suggest the Moon administration had a hand in spreading the virus among churchgoers – if anything, it has tried to contain the sickness. -
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Sputnik News
Russian state news outlet
“On 11 August, Russia announced the world's first vaccine for COVID-19, named 'Sputnik V' … International observers detail why the breakthrough development has been met with either silence or rejection from the Western press.”
Read more...Not just Western media – but Russian sources, too – accurately reported that the vaccine hadn’t started the most important round of human testing.
