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POLYGRAPH.INFOABOUTECONOMYPOLITICSHUMAN RIGHTSMILITARY Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA). The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and CHINESE DISINFO HITS U.S. BIOLAB WITH NEW COVID-19 CONSPIRACY On May 29, the website of Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper, published a new story attempting to connect the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to the U.S. Army biological laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Polygraph.info has covered Fort Detrick conspiracy theories in the past, and the new article shows some of the hallmarks

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VIRAL (AHEM) ‘VACCINATED’ EAR TAG IMAGE IS SOOOO FAKE Source: Facebook, May 9, 2021. False. On May 9, Rafael Gazo Lahoz, a retired Spanish doctor and popular blogger, posted an image on his Facebook page comprised of two photos, one showing a cow’s ear with a tag, the other showing a woman’s head with a vaccine tag through her earlobe. On social media, thousands of anti-vaxxers have shared a RUSSIA’S NEW RULES FOR NORTHERN SEA ROUTE VIOLATE The Russian government has developed new rules to control the Northern Sea Route, which passes along the country’s northern coast in the Arctic, the newspaper Izvestia reported on March 6. “Russia is taking the Northern Sea Route under protection,” wrote Izvestia, in a piece headlined “A Cold Wave” – an apparent reference to the

Cold War.

of

Cold War.

DID MADELEINE ALBRIGHT EVER COVET SIBERIA? Over the years Russian officials have attributed a statement to the former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that she says, and the record shows, she never made. Albright is alleged to have coveted Siberia, complaining such a region with its vast resources was unfairly in the hands of one country. There is no record that Albright ever made such a remark, and she has denied ever saying it. INFOWARS’ JONES HAWKED ‘NANOSILVER TOOTHPASTE’ FAKE Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. WHAT PUTIN SAYS ABOUT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN RUSSIA VSPUTIN RUSSIAN NAMEPUTIN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN: “Media is free”. “The media is not free in Russia, unfortunately,” Roman Badanin, former editor-in-chief of an independent and privately owned television station TV Rain told Polygraph.info. “Putin says many lies. He is very much aware of the pressure on the media and cases of government pressure on press freedoms in Russia.”. RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CANADA USES BUTINA CASE TO ATTACK # The Russian Embassy in Canada has tried to tie the conspiracy case of Maria Butina to the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault. The embassy said her conviction shows the “bias and hypocritical” nature of western feminism. But UPDATED: WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WAGNER GROUPWHO IS THE WAGNER GROUPRUSSIAN MERCENARIES WAGNER GROUPPMC WAGNER GROUPWAGNER GROUP MERCENARIESWAGNER GROUP SECURITYWAGNER RUSSIAN Russian officials have been extremely reluctant to speak about the deaths of Russian “private contractors” in Syria, denying any connection or even knowledge of their outfit, the Wagner Group. In reality, there is plenty of evidence that the Russian state is not only aware of Wagner and its activities, but that it has helped organize the mercenary outfit and provides it with material support. WHY ARE AMERICANS PROHIBITED FROM ADOPTING RUSSIAN ORPHANS? Russia -- People take part in a rally to protest against the law, that bans Americans from adopting Russian children, in St. Petersburg, 13Jan2013. In Russia, the “Dima Yakovlev law” law is widely seen as a direct response to the “Magnitsky Act,” the U.S. law adopted in 2012 that imposes sanctions on Russian citizens involved in human BELARUS MAKES SKETCHY NEW CLAIMS TO DEFEND DIVERTING FLIGHT On June 3, the Belarusian state news agency Belta published a story on a documentary by the state-owned ONT TV channel about the diversion of Ryanair Flight 4978 to Minsk airport on May 23. ABOUT POLYGRAPH.INFO Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) . The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and misinformation being distributed and shared globally. VOA journalists research and analyze quotes, stories, and reports distributed by government officials, government-sponsored media and other high-profile individuals. CORONAVIRUS: THE INFODEMIC Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here . INDIAN POLITICIAN BRAGS ABOUT VACCINE EFFORTS AS COVID-19 According to Our World in Data, as of May 18, 144.1 million people had received at least one shot of the vaccine. Out of the 144.1 million, 40.9 million – only about 3 percent of India’s population – had received both shots. So, while 185 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered, fewer people have been vaccinated than Reddy AMID IMPEACHMENT FUROR, BOLSONARO MISLEADS WITH BOASTS OF Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak has exploded since its first case was confirmed in late February 2020, and Bolsonaro has persistently minimized the dangers of COVID-19.. Last year, he said it was “a little cold” and called alarm over the pandemic “hysterical.”He also undermined and tried to overrule isolation orders imposed by state governors and even personally attended anti-lockdown BOLIVIA’S CONGRESS SAYS CHLORIDE DIOXIDE KILLS CORONAVIRUS On Aug. 5, the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies approved legislation authorizing the emergency “manufacture, marketing, supply and use of chlorine dioxide solution for the prevention and treatment of coronavirus.”. The Senate, the upper house of Congress, had approved the bill a week earlier. The law “will last as long as the risk of contagion of the coronavirus exists,” and the use of the CHINA’S MURKY CLAIMS ABOUT THE INDIA BORDER CLASH Misleading. A December 4 article in China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of trying to “stir up regional conflict” between China and India by weighing in on border clashes in the western Himalayas between the two nuclear-armed states earlier this year. The article was written in response to the release of the 2020 FACT, FICTION IN CHINA’S CRITIQUE OF U.S. ARMS CONTROL As next year’s deadline for renewing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) approaches, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has set an ambitious goal – to replace and extend the treaty to include China.. New START is a nuclear arms agreement between the United States and Russia that took effect in 2011 and sets limits on land-based intercontinental and FORGET ABOUT THOSE SANCTIONS, KREMLIN SAYS OLIGARCHS DON’T On June 10, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to a question about whether Russian oligarchs were bankrolling the opposition in Belarus, as that country’s president, Alexander Lukashenka, alleged. “We don’t know anything about any sort of Russian oligarchs, or about their existence,” Peskov said, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. RUSSIAN NEWS ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF PMC WAGNER While there is strong evidence that Wagner was originally affiliated with the Russian state, since 2017 it has become associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin who has benefited immensely from, among other ventures, contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.Prigozhin came under U.S. sanctions in 2016, and several of his companies, including POLYGRAPH.INFOABOUTECONOMYPOLITICSHUMAN RIGHTSMILITARY Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA). The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and CHINESE DISINFO HITS U.S. BIOLAB WITH NEW COVID-19 CONSPIRACY On July 11, 2019, the Fairfax County Health Department announced that it had launched an investigation into a respiratory infection outbreak at Greenspring Retirement Community. “The Health Department was recently informed that over the last 11 days a total of 54 individuals out of the 263 residents in this facility have become ill with respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory VIRAL (AHEM) ‘VACCINATED’ EAR TAG IMAGE IS SOOOO FAKE Facebook was not the only platform on which the image of a woman with a “vaccinated” ear tag was widely shared. It was also posted on Reddit, with about 4,000 up and down votes in less than 24 hours.. Tumblr user “oww666” posted the image in forums, and it has been picked up and passed on by others. A reverse image search found that the same image appeared on several anti-vaxxer RUSSIA’S NEW RULES FOR NORTHERN SEA ROUTE VIOLATE The Russian government has developed new rules to control the Northern Sea Route, which passes along the country’s northern coast in the Arctic, the newspaper Izvestia reported on March 6. “Russia is taking the Northern Sea Route under protection,” wrote Izvestia, in a piece headlined “A Cold Wave” – an apparent reference to the

Cold War.

RUSSIAN NEWS ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF PMC WAGNERRUSSIA WAGNER GROUPWAGNER CLASSIC CARSWAGNER COMPANYWAGNER GROUP AFRICAWAGNER GROUP

USAWAGNER USED CARS

While there is strong evidence that Wagner was originally affiliated with the Russian state, since 2017 it has become associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin who has benefited immensely from, among other ventures, contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.Prigozhin came under U.S. sanctions in 2016, and several of his companies, including DID MADELEINE ALBRIGHT EVER COVET SIBERIA? Over the years Russian officials have attributed a statement to the former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that she says, and the record shows, she never made. Albright is alleged to have coveted Siberia, complaining such a region with its vast resources was unfairly in the hands of one country. There is no record that Albright ever made such a remark, and she has denied ever saying it. INFOWARS’ JONES HAWKED ‘NANOSILVER TOOTHPASTE’ FAKE Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. WHY ARE AMERICANS PROHIBITED FROM ADOPTING RUSSIAN ORPHANS? In Russia, the “Dima Yakovlev law” law is widely seen as a direct response to the “Magnitsky Act,” the U.S. law adopted in 2012 that imposes sanctions on Russian citizens involved in human rights violations.. Adoption agreements between Russia and the two other countries mentioned by Kuznetsova, France and Italy, remain in effect governing the cooperation she described in the Pozner RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CANADA USES BUTINA CASE TO ATTACK # The Russian Embassy in Canada has tried to tie the conspiracy case of Maria Butina to the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault. The embassy said her conviction shows the “bias and hypocritical” nature of western feminism. But WHAT PUTIN SAYS ABOUT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN RUSSIA VSPUTIN RUSSIAN NAMEPUTIN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT The Freedom House 2018 Freedom in the World report rates Russia “Not Free,” based on Russia’s score on the “Freedom rating” – 6.5; For “Political rights” – 7; And for “Civil liberties” – 6 on a scale of “1=Most Free; 7=Least Free. “Power in Russia’s authoritarian political system is concentrated in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. POLYGRAPH.INFOABOUTECONOMYPOLITICSHUMAN RIGHTSMILITARY Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA). The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and CHINESE DISINFO HITS U.S. BIOLAB WITH NEW COVID-19 CONSPIRACY On July 11, 2019, the Fairfax County Health Department announced that it had launched an investigation into a respiratory infection outbreak at Greenspring Retirement Community. “The Health Department was recently informed that over the last 11 days a total of 54 individuals out of the 263 residents in this facility have become ill with respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory VIRAL (AHEM) ‘VACCINATED’ EAR TAG IMAGE IS SOOOO FAKE Facebook was not the only platform on which the image of a woman with a “vaccinated” ear tag was widely shared. It was also posted on Reddit, with about 4,000 up and down votes in less than 24 hours.. Tumblr user “oww666” posted the image in forums, and it has been picked up and passed on by others. A reverse image search found that the same image appeared on several anti-vaxxer RUSSIA’S NEW RULES FOR NORTHERN SEA ROUTE VIOLATE The Russian government has developed new rules to control the Northern Sea Route, which passes along the country’s northern coast in the Arctic, the newspaper Izvestia reported on March 6. “Russia is taking the Northern Sea Route under protection,” wrote Izvestia, in a piece headlined “A Cold Wave” – an apparent reference to the

Cold War.

RUSSIAN NEWS ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF PMC WAGNERRUSSIA WAGNER GROUPWAGNER CLASSIC CARSWAGNER COMPANYWAGNER GROUP AFRICAWAGNER GROUP

USAWAGNER USED CARS

While there is strong evidence that Wagner was originally affiliated with the Russian state, since 2017 it has become associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin who has benefited immensely from, among other ventures, contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.Prigozhin came under U.S. sanctions in 2016, and several of his companies, including DID MADELEINE ALBRIGHT EVER COVET SIBERIA? Over the years Russian officials have attributed a statement to the former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that she says, and the record shows, she never made. Albright is alleged to have coveted Siberia, complaining such a region with its vast resources was unfairly in the hands of one country. There is no record that Albright ever made such a remark, and she has denied ever saying it. INFOWARS’ JONES HAWKED ‘NANOSILVER TOOTHPASTE’ FAKE Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. WHY ARE AMERICANS PROHIBITED FROM ADOPTING RUSSIAN ORPHANS? In Russia, the “Dima Yakovlev law” law is widely seen as a direct response to the “Magnitsky Act,” the U.S. law adopted in 2012 that imposes sanctions on Russian citizens involved in human rights violations.. Adoption agreements between Russia and the two other countries mentioned by Kuznetsova, France and Italy, remain in effect governing the cooperation she described in the Pozner RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CANADA USES BUTINA CASE TO ATTACK # The Russian Embassy in Canada has tried to tie the conspiracy case of Maria Butina to the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault. The embassy said her conviction shows the “bias and hypocritical” nature of western feminism. But WHAT PUTIN SAYS ABOUT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN RUSSIA VSPUTIN RUSSIAN NAMEPUTIN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT The Freedom House 2018 Freedom in the World report rates Russia “Not Free,” based on Russia’s score on the “Freedom rating” – 6.5; For “Political rights” – 7; And for “Civil liberties” – 6 on a scale of “1=Most Free; 7=Least Free. “Power in Russia’s authoritarian political system is concentrated in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. ABOUT POLYGRAPH.INFO Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) . The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and misinformation being distributed and shared globally. VOA journalists research and analyze quotes, stories, and reports distributed by government officials, government-sponsored media and other high-profile individuals. INDIAN POLITICIAN BRAGS ABOUT VACCINE EFFORTS AS COVID-19 As the Quartz business website reported, “tracking events over the past year reveals a timeline of dysfunction: a period in which government negligence, corporate profiteering, opaque contracting, and the inequities of the global pharma market combined to bring India to this moment of vaccine crisis.”. In January, Indian regulators approved the Covishield and Covaxin vaccines for use. BOLIVIA’S CONGRESS SAYS CHLORIDE DIOXIDE KILLS CORONAVIRUS On Aug. 5, the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies approved legislation authorizing the emergency “manufacture, marketing, supply and use of chlorine dioxide solution for the prevention and treatment of coronavirus.”. The Senate, the upper house of Congress, had approved the bill a week earlier. The law “will last as long as the risk of contagion of the coronavirus exists,” and the use of the CHINA’S MURKY CLAIMS ABOUT THE INDIA BORDER CLASH A December 4 article in China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of trying to “stir up regional conflict” between China and India by weighing in on border clashes in the western Himalayas between the two nuclear-armed states earlier this year. ‘LANDLORD’ OF BELARUS SMITES THE PRESS AND WOMEN IN POLITICS Lukashenko, 65, a former communist and political officer in the Soviet army, has been ruling Belarus since 1994, when the office of president was established after the country regained its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.. Lukashenko’s popularity has diminished over the last several years as the country struggled with economic stagnation and low wages. DISINFO ANALYSIS: MOSCOW’S BALKAN DEFEAT Damir Marusic, the executive editor of The American Interest magazine, told Polygraph.info: “I expect the assault to continue. Any hiccups in the implementation of Prespa, or in NATO accession, allows Russia to portray the alliance, and the West in general, as a

paper tiger.

ARE ‘PUTIN’S BILLIONS’ A MYTH? A Russian state media columnist attacked efforts to determine President Vladimir Putin’s “mythical” wealth, claiming that Western intelligence agencies have been unable to dig up the dirt despite their access to offshore flows. We find an abundance of evidence that is already available publicly. FORGET ABOUT THOSE SANCTIONS, KREMLIN SAYS OLIGARCHS DON’T On June 10, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to a question about whether Russian oligarchs were bankrolling the opposition in Belarus, as that country’s president, Alexander Lukashenka, alleged. “We don’t know anything about any sort of Russian oligarchs, or about their existence,” Peskov said, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY INITIALLY DENIED RADIATION LEAK The Russian Defense Ministry statement was contradicted by the local mayor’s office, which reported a “brief” rise in radiation levels, and some victims of the accident are apparently being treated for radiation exposure. Rosatom later said they were working with

nuclear material.

RUSSIAN TV DIGS UP FABRICATED ORGAN HARVESTING CLAIM The Russian TV channel NTV made a number of claims about former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his wife Sandra Roelofs, including that she is part of black market organ harvesting in Eastern Ukraine. But the latest spin on this conspiracy theory POLYGRAPH.INFOABOUTECONOMYPOLITICSHUMAN RIGHTSMILITARY Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA). The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and CHINESE DISINFO HITS U.S. BIOLAB WITH NEW COVID-19 CONSPIRACY On July 11, 2019, the Fairfax County Health Department announced that it had launched an investigation into a respiratory infection outbreak at Greenspring Retirement Community. “The Health Department was recently informed that over the last 11 days a total of 54 individuals out of the 263 residents in this facility have become ill with respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory VIRAL (AHEM) ‘VACCINATED’ EAR TAG IMAGE IS SOOOO FAKE Facebook was not the only platform on which the image of a woman with a “vaccinated” ear tag was widely shared. It was also posted on Reddit, with about 4,000 up and down votes in less than 24 hours.. Tumblr user “oww666” posted the image in forums, and it has been picked up and passed on by others. A reverse image search found that the same image appeared on several anti-vaxxer RUSSIA’S NEW RULES FOR NORTHERN SEA ROUTE VIOLATE The Russian government has developed new rules to control the Northern Sea Route, which passes along the country’s northern coast in the Arctic, the newspaper Izvestia reported on March 6. “Russia is taking the Northern Sea Route under protection,” wrote Izvestia, in a piece headlined “A Cold Wave” – an apparent reference to the

Cold War.

RUSSIAN NEWS ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF PMC WAGNERRUSSIA WAGNER GROUPWAGNER CLASSIC CARSWAGNER COMPANYWAGNER GROUP AFRICAWAGNER GROUP

USAWAGNER USED CARS

Cold War.

RUSSIAN NEWS ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF PMC WAGNERRUSSIA WAGNER GROUPWAGNER CLASSIC CARSWAGNER COMPANYWAGNER GROUP AFRICAWAGNER GROUP

USAWAGNER USED CARS

While there is strong evidence that Wagner was originally affiliated with the Russian state, since 2017 it has become associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin who has benefited immensely from, among other ventures, contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.Prigozhin came under U.S. sanctions in 2016, and several of his companies, including DID MADELEINE ALBRIGHT EVER COVET SIBERIA? Over the years Russian officials have attributed a statement to the former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that she says, and the record shows, she never made. Albright is alleged to have coveted Siberia, complaining such a region with its vast resources was unfairly in the hands of one country. There is no record that Albright ever made such a remark, and she has denied ever saying it. INFOWARS’ JONES HAWKED ‘NANOSILVER TOOTHPASTE’ FAKE Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. WHY ARE AMERICANS PROHIBITED FROM ADOPTING RUSSIAN ORPHANS? In Russia, the “Dima Yakovlev law” law is widely seen as a direct response to the “Magnitsky Act,” the U.S. law adopted in 2012 that imposes sanctions on Russian citizens involved in human rights violations.. Adoption agreements between Russia and the two other countries mentioned by Kuznetsova, France and Italy, remain in effect governing the cooperation she described in the Pozner RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CANADA USES BUTINA CASE TO ATTACK # The Russian Embassy in Canada has tried to tie the conspiracy case of Maria Butina to the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault. The embassy said her conviction shows the “bias and hypocritical” nature of western feminism. But WHAT PUTIN SAYS ABOUT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN RUSSIA VSPUTIN RUSSIAN NAMEPUTIN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT The Freedom House 2018 Freedom in the World report rates Russia “Not Free,” based on Russia’s score on the “Freedom rating” – 6.5; For “Political rights” – 7; And for “Civil liberties” – 6 on a scale of “1=Most Free; 7=Least Free. “Power in Russia’s authoritarian political system is concentrated in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. ABOUT POLYGRAPH.INFO Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) . The website serves as a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and misinformation being distributed and shared globally. VOA journalists research and analyze quotes, stories, and reports distributed by government officials, government-sponsored media and other high-profile individuals. INDIAN POLITICIAN BRAGS ABOUT VACCINE EFFORTS AS COVID-19 As the Quartz business website reported, “tracking events over the past year reveals a timeline of dysfunction: a period in which government negligence, corporate profiteering, opaque contracting, and the inequities of the global pharma market combined to bring India to this moment of vaccine crisis.”. In January, Indian regulators approved the Covishield and Covaxin vaccines for use. BOLIVIA’S CONGRESS SAYS CHLORIDE DIOXIDE KILLS CORONAVIRUS On Aug. 5, the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies approved legislation authorizing the emergency “manufacture, marketing, supply and use of chlorine dioxide solution for the prevention and treatment of coronavirus.”. The Senate, the upper house of Congress, had approved the bill a week earlier. The law “will last as long as the risk of contagion of the coronavirus exists,” and the use of the CHINA’S MURKY CLAIMS ABOUT THE INDIA BORDER CLASH A December 4 article in China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of trying to “stir up regional conflict” between China and India by weighing in on border clashes in the western Himalayas between the two nuclear-armed states earlier this year. ‘LANDLORD’ OF BELARUS SMITES THE PRESS AND WOMEN IN POLITICS Lukashenko, 65, a former communist and political officer in the Soviet army, has been ruling Belarus since 1994, when the office of president was established after the country regained its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.. Lukashenko’s popularity has diminished over the last several years as the country struggled with economic stagnation and low wages. DISINFO ANALYSIS: MOSCOW’S BALKAN DEFEAT Damir Marusic, the executive editor of The American Interest magazine, told Polygraph.info: “I expect the assault to continue. Any hiccups in the implementation of Prespa, or in NATO accession, allows Russia to portray the alliance, and the West in general, as a

paper tiger.

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Russian Foreign Minister “In the field of sports, there are power battles which are mainly aimed at ensuring that an Anglo-Saxon group of states determines the rules, including with regards to the use of doping.” Source: Rossiya-24, August 15, 2019

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Anti-doping policies are regulated under an international code and executed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Russia’s foreign minister has claimed an “Anglo-Saxon” group of states is dictating anti-doping policies to the world. Current anti-doping rules follow the World Anti-Doping Code first introduced in 1999 in Switzerland, to which 660 sports organizations, including Russia’s, are signatories. Read more...

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Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region “They have told blatant lies, applauded violence as 'a beautiful

sight to behold…'

Source: Xinhua Chinese state-run news agency, August 15, 2019

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Pelosi applauded a peaceful vigil, not Hong Kong violence A Chinese official in Hong Kong directed his ire at Western politicians he claimed had “applauded violence as 'a beautiful sight to behold'.” He was citing Nancy Pelosi’s words, which did not applaud violence, but praised a peaceful candlelight vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. Read more...

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“Russia has endorsed India's move of abrogating Article 370 and bifurcating the state of Jammu & Kashmir, saying the exercise was ‘carried out within the framework of the Constitution of the Republic of India.’” Source: Times of India, August 10, 2019

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Russian State TV broadcaster “It was a concert: An ugly action in the center of Moscow.” Source: YouTube, August 11, 2019

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Official explanations have changed several times. The Russian Defense Ministry statement was contradicted by the local mayor’s office, which reported a “brief” rise in radiation levels, and some victims of the accident are apparently being treated for radiation exposure. Rosatom later said they were working with nuclear material. Read more...

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Russia Falsely Claims the U. S. Never Presented Evidence of INF

Treaty Violation

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RUSSIA FALSELY CLAIMS THE U. S. NEVER PRESENTED EVIDENCE OF INF TREATY

VIOLATION

NIKOLAI PATRUSHEV

Russian Security Council Secretary "I am unable to mention a single instance or piece of evidence they presented to us. There has been nothing of the

sort."

Source: TASS, August 6, 2019

False

Russian military officials have confirmed they have intermediate-range missiles at their disposal The U.S. has raised Russia’s INF violations in more than 30 bilateral meetings over the past six years. Russian military commanders have inadvertently disclosed that the Novator 9M729 is capable of exceeding the 500 km threshold of the INF Treaty. Read

more...

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Russia’s UK Embassy Fires Back at Skripal Poisoning Sanctions

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RUSSIA’S UK EMBASSY FIRES BACK AT SKRIPAL POISONING SANCTIONS EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN LONDON Official Twitter feed “Sanctions and accusations are poor substitute for evidence. And the latter lacks utterly.” Source: Twitter, August 4, 2019

False

The evidence ties Moscow to Skripal poisoning despite Russian embassy

claims

Following additional U.S. sanctions on Russia over the March 2018 Novichok poisoning, Russia's U.K. embassy claimed there is no proof linking Moscow to the attack. However, the presence of Russian GRU officers near the Skripals’ Salisbury home and other evidence points to the Kremlin's culpability. Read more...

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Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses U.S. Embassy in Moscow of Publicizing Unsanctioned Rally

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RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ACCUSES U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW OF PUBLICIZING

UNSANCTIONED RALLY

MARIA ZAKHAROVA

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman “A division of the State Department of the United States -- and, directly, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow -- published the itinerary of the so-called walk that lay ahead on Saturday.” Source: Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov

Misleading

The embassy published a warning to U.S. citizens to avoid the

demonstration.

The U.S. State Department routinely publishes warnings to U.S. citizens about demonstrations in foreign cities, especially if there is a danger of clashes with law enforcement. Read more...

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Twitter Temporarily Bans Russian Embassy in Syria, Reason Unknown

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TWITTER TEMPORARILY BANS RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN SYRIA, REASON UNKNOWN RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN SOUTH AFRICA TWITTER ACCOUNT Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account “Thought police is already here - @twitter suspends account of the Russian Embassy in #Syria (!) after it posted factual criticism of the #WhiteHelmets, quoted @mod_russia data. Wasn't verified account yet - only proves "ordinary" accounts not allowed to have differing

opinions”

Source: Twitter

False

The reason for the ban is unknown. Twitter did not say why it banned the account in question. However, the Twitter accounts of a number of Russian embassies have repeatedly disseminated false information about the White Helmets. Read more...

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Pro-Kremlin Pundit Blames Demonstrators for Police Crackdown on

Moscow Protest

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PRO-KREMLIN PUNDIT BLAMES DEMONSTRATORS FOR POLICE CRACKDOWN ON MOSCOW

PROTEST

ALEXEY MARTYNOV

Director of the International Institute of Newly-Established States “And so, the attempt to organize mass unrest in Moscow through provocations to elicit a extremely harsh police reaction have

failed.”

Source: RT, July 29, 2019

False

It was Russian police, and not protesters, who were violent After protests against a ban on opposition candidates in Moscow’s upcoming municipal elections turned violent, a pro-Kremlin pundit claimed that the protesters had tried to provoke a harsh police response. But journalists and rights organizations say the police crackdown was swift and unprovoked. Read more...

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Sputnik Falsely Claims that NATO Combats Orthodoxy

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SPUTNIK FALSELY CLAIMS THAT NATO COMBATS ORTHODOXY

SPUTNIK SERBIA

Russian government-sponsored web portal “The persecution of the SPC in North Macedonia, as well as the latest heightened tensions and pressure on the SPC diocese in Montenegro can be interpreted as part of the wider strategy of the West to counter Orthodoxy.” Source: Sputnik Serbia

False

The West does not counter Orthodoxy, but the Serbian Orthodox Church has been undermining the sovereignty of pro-Western Montenegro and

North Macedonia.

NATO is no enemy of Orthodoxy as several NATO member states are predominantly Christian Orthodox. The Orthodox churches of Montenegro and North Macedonia have been seeking independence even before the break up of Yugoslavia. Read more...

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Russian Military’s Own Exhibit Debunks its Claims That It Hasn’t Used Cluster Bombs in Syria

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RUSSIAN MILITARY’S OWN EXHIBIT DEBUNKS ITS CLAIMS THAT IT HASN’T USED CLUSTER BOMBS IN SYRIA

IGOR KONASHENKOV

Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson "Concerning speculation about cluster bombs – the Russian air force does not use (them).”

Source: RIA Novosti

False

The defense ministry itself recently debunked its own claim from 2015 (Russian state media has shown cluster bombs being used in Syria). Besides state media footage, that showed cluster munitions on Russian-used bases in Syria, a recent Russian Defense Ministry exhibit of weapons used in that country displayed cluster bombs. Read more...

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RT Head Speaks Out Against U.K. Watchdog Fine

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RT HEAD SPEAKS OUT AGAINST U.K. WATCHDOG FINE

MARGARITA SIMONYAN

RT editor in chief

“And this is what we were fined for … In a story about a children's drawing competition in honor of the ‘Galicia’ SS division, which the Lviv Department of Education organized, we ‘did not provide an alternative point of view’ -- of the Ukrainian

authorities.”

Source: Twitter, July 26, 2019

misleading

Simonyan failed to give an accurate reading of media watchdog

sanctions

After being fined for breaching U.K. media impartiality rules, RT’s editor in chief Margarita Simonyan weighed in on the penalty via. However, she failed to mention the Salisbury attack, which prompted the spike in offending broadcasts, while downplaying RT's lack of impartiality. Read more... DISINFORMATION NEWS AND ANALYSIS

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Disinfo Analysis

RUSSIA: NON-INFORMATION AS DISINFORMATION

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Disinfo News

RUSSIA, US BLAME EACH OTHER FOR ENDING NUCLEAR TREATY, OUR FACT

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Disinfo Analysis

‘THE BALKAN LINE’ – RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION ON THE BIG SCREEN

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Disinfo News

SUSPECTS NAMED: TRACKING RUSSIA'S MH17 CONSPIRACY NARRATIVES

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World Press Freedom Day RUSSIA’S INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS: TURNING THE SERBIAN MEDIA INTO A DISINFORMATION HUB

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PELOSI ACCUSED OF APPLAUDING HONG KONG VIOLENCE OVER TIANANMEN CANDLE

VIGIL PRAISE

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RUSSIAN STATE TV PUTS OUT HIT PIECE ON MOSCOW OPPOSITION PROTEST

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RUSSIA, IN EFFORT TO DEFUSE U.S. NUCLEAR DISPUTE, DISPLAYS NEW

MISSILE

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RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ACCUSES U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW OF PUBLICIZING UNSANCTIONED RALLY

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PRO-KREMLIN PUNDIT BLAMES DEMONSTRATORS FOR MOSCOW PROTEST POLICE

CRACKDOWN

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RUSSIAN MILITARY’S OWN EXHIBIT DEBUNKS ITS CLAIMS IT HASN’T USED CLUSTER BOMBS IN SYRIA

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RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY SPARS WITH SOUTH KOREA OVER AIRSPACE

INCIDENT

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