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Unidentified team of hackers
“Vilnius police arrested two U.S. citizens on suspicion of an attempted car theft. Saulius Gagas, chief of the Vilnius County police, said that it is difficult to detect such crimes. But after hard work, two suspects were detained. Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis, in turn, called the case ‘extraordinary’.”
Read more...The report -- including the quotes attributed to law enforcement officials, the alleged involvement and detention of U.S. troops, the byline of a prominent journalist – was fabricated, planted on news sites and distributed via a hoax email as part of a disinformation cyber-attack. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
"I'm constantly being asked this question: where do they get tanks and heavy artillery? Listen, in many hot spots around the world there are various kinds of conflicts and military campaigns, including with the use of tanks, artillery, and so on. Where does this come from? Apparently, from those structures and states who sympathize with them, but this is their equipment, not foreign. I'd like to draw attention to that."
Read more...Russia is the only country that has a land border with the separatists’ self-proclaimed “republics,” and numerous pieces of Russian military equipment and their crews have been identified in Donbas. There is no evidence that other countries have provided such weapons. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
Claims about WADA doping ban, Maria Butina's foreign agent plea, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's killing in Berlin.
Read more...Polygraph.info presents three claims Putin repeated during his year-end presser that we have previously fact-checked and proved false. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
“We are not moving toward closing off the internet and are not going to do that.”
Read more...While the Russian authorities’ intentions are unclear, they have been seeking the means to cut Russia off from the rest of the Internet including the creation of an isolated and fully controlled RuNet under the new “sovereign internet” law. -
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kyrgyzstan
“We especially note that in Kyrgyzstan there are no restrictions whatsoever on the activities of the media.”
Read more...The U.S.-based human rights group Freedom House rates Kyrgyzstan as “partly free,” and press freedom groups have criticized the Kyrgyz authorities for prosecuting journalists who investigate official corruption and criticize the government. -
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Vladimir Batyuk
Head of the Center for Military and Political Research at the State Institute of the U.S. and Canada
“[A] titanic battle between American nationalism and American liberal globalism. Donald Trump embodies the first camp, and half of the Americans support him on this issue, believing that the U.S. spends too much [in terms of] manpower and resources on foreign policy. Liberal globalism is represented in this by the deep state, which hates the president and is doing everything to maximally complicate Trump’s life in Washington.”
Read more...Most polls still show Americans support for NATO, and while Batyuk is correct that most Americans say domestic affairs are more important than foreign policy, that did not start with the Trump administration. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Foreign Minister, Russia
“We have highlighted once again that all speculations about our alleged interference in the domestic processes in the United States are baseless. There were no facts that support that. We did not see these facts. No one has given us these proofs because simply they don’t exist.”
Read more...Several legislative and executive bodies in the U.S. found that Russian actors made significant efforts to intercede in the 2016 election. -
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Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“He is a cruel and blood-thirsty person. In just one of the attacks in which he took part, he killed 98 people. He was one of the organizers of explosions in the Moscow metro.”
Read more...Despite an assertion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former Chechen fighter assassinated in Berlin was not on Russia’s terrorist list and had not been accused in any of the seven Moscow metro bombings since 1996.
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