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What is the origin of this photo of an unexploded bomb?
The viral image below purports to show three TV screenshots of the same photo of a bomb, with the source of the being attributed to three different sources:
First image: Ukrainian Channel 5. The text translates to "Russia bombs".
Second image:…
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Is this photo of a jet firing at MH17 a fake?
An image showing a jet firing at MH17 in the Ukraine has surfaced recently and was broadcast by the official Russian state news channel, Channel One Russia.
Could this image be real?
There's an analysis that claims the image is "geometrically…
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Did Russia release lions onto the streets to keep people in isolation?
I've seen the below image circulating on Facebook:
(source: pressablecdn.com)
They are claiming lions are being used to keep Russians indoors during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Did the CIA blow up a Siberian pipeline in 1982?
The Telegraph claimed in 2004 that the CIA blew up a Russian gas pipeline in Siberia, by tricking the operator into installing booby-trapped software.
Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary who was in Ronald Reagan's National Security…
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Was Paul Manafort exonerated for the crimes he’s now charged with?
Andrew Napolitano just said this on Fox News regarding the trial of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort:
Here’s Manafort’s defense: I was investigated for all this by the government 8 years ago and I was exonerated, and I’m going to put on the…
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Did a Russian Orthodox priest sprinkle holy water on Russia's Central Bank's servers?
Tweet by @bankableInsight (3,639 retweets, 1,662 favorites), reported by the NZ Herald:
This is a Russian priest sprinkling holy water on the central bank's
servers in an attempt to stop the fall of ruble.
Are Russia's central bank's servers…
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Did Hillary Clinton pay Russian officials 30 million dollars, through her campaign to get dirt on Trump?
In tonight's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Ann Coulter said:
I mean, Hillary Clinton paid, through her campaign, 30 million dollars to Russian officials to get dirt on Trump
The full interview including the quote above can be seen on…
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Did Putin threaten to have traitors assassinated?
In the recent U.N. Security Council meeting, U.K. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Allen quoted Putin by the following words (YouTube link, the relevant part starts at 1:07:30):
Traitors will kick the bucket, believe me. Those other…
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Did 17 U.S. intelligence agencies claim that Russia was behind the DNC hack?
It has been reported repeatedly that 17 U.S intelligence agencies have come out publicly to say that the Russian government was behind the 2016 Democratic National Committee Email Leak
For example, from the Washington Post:
“We have two choices:…
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Did Volodymyr Zelenskyy say that "if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they should leave for Russia"?
In an interview with the BBC on June 16, 2022, Sergey Lavrov claims the following:
[…], whose president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in September 2021 (you didn’t tell your viewers about it, did you?) that, if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they…
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Did medieval Russia reject Islam because of its prohibition against alcohol?
For a long time, I have been aware of a historical anecdote about the attempt to convert Russia to Islam. I don’t know where I first heard the anecdote: I’m pretty sure it was oral, so I had to dig a bit to find notable claims. The anecdote goes…
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Was Ukraine planning an attack in Donbas/Crimea prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Quote by Putin in today's Victory Day speech:
“In December last year, we proposed the conclusion of an agreement on security guarantees. Russia called on the West to enter an honest dialogue, in search of reasonable compromise solutions, to take…
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Do the Crimean people prefer to be with Russia than with Ukraine?
In July 2016, Donald Trump, as a US presidential candidate was quoted by ABC News as saying:
The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.
Politifact confirmed the quote and looked into reports at…
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Did a Turkish cargo ship get bombed in the Black Sea during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
In a Discord server, someone pointed out the following article by Russian state news media about a Turkish cargo ship which was reportedly hit by a bomb on the way from Odessa to Romania:
Turkish Cargo Ship in Black Sea Reportedly Hit by 'Bomb' en…
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Can Russia's Poseidon nuclear underwater drone create a 500 meter tidal wave?
According to TheTimes.co.uk, "Russian ‘nuclear tsunami’ will wipe out Britain, Kremlin-backed media threatens"
In his Sunday evening primetime show, the Channel One anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said a strike by Russia’s Poseidon nuclear underwater drone…
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