Use this tag for claims which apply to the country of Russia or the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Did Russia's economy boom between 1999 and 2013?
This image has been floating around on social media (e.g. 9gag
It claims that Putin has been in power since 1999, and in the first 14 years:
GDP rose from $159b to $2113b.
GDP (PPP) rose from $1320 to $14800.
Inflation dropped from 36.5% to…
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Did Russia destroy all their (official) chemical weapons?
This article from The Guardian features a quote from Putin claiming that Russia destroyed all their chemical weapons:
“Secondly, Russia does not have such [nerve] agents. We destroyed all
our chemical weapons under the supervision of…
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Did NATO promise not to expand into Eastern and Central Europe?
In its own fact sheet NATO denies Russia's claims that NATO promised not to expand:
Russian officials claim that US and German officials promised in 1990 that NATO would not expand into Eastern and Central Europe, build military infrastructure near…
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Have Putin and his family stolen $300 billion or more from Russians?
During the debates held in the House of Commons on 14th March 2018 about the alleged poisoning of Russian spy Skripal in Salisbury, U.K. Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Thomas Tugendhat said (emphasis mine):
Will the Prime Minister also…
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Is it dangerous to mix boiled and unboiled water?
There is a popular belief in Russia that mixing boiled and unboiled water (say, adding cold unboiled water to a cup of tea to cool it) can be dangerous for one's health, even if it is safe to drink both liquids apart.
Example of the claim:
Original,…
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Do these photos show Ukrainian children being trained to fight the Russian army?
From a widely-shared Reddit post:
Ukrainian children trained to use rifles against Russian soldiers
The other photos in the post are shown below.
Neither the post nor the comments provide a source. Reverse image search turns up similar…
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Are these reports alleging the existence of blackmail material by the Russian intelligence on Donald Trump a hoax perpetuated by 4chan?
Buzzfeed published this PDF alleged to by from a former British intelligence officer containing notable allegations including:
The Russian regime has been working with Trump for at least five years
Donald Trump engaged in 'golden showers' in a…
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Was Russian Su-24 fighter able to disable electronics aboard USS Donald Cook and thus lead to personnel aboard the ship to resign?
According to some news sources, an incident occurred on April 11th, 2014, between a Russian SU-24 fighter jet (some articles refer to it as a "tactical bomber") and USS Donald Cook (a guided missile destroyer) which at the time was doing "patrol…
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Were videos of the Flydubai Flight 981 crash published before the official crash time?
On March 19, 2016, Flydubai Flight 981 crashed in Russia.
It is reported (for example on English Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia to have crashed at 19 Mar 03:42 am MST (i.e. UTC+3) in City of Rostov-na-Donu airport.
However, the first two videos…
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Did the USA increase oil imports from Russia after the Ukraine invasion?
According to Zhao Lijian of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY)
[...] Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov said, in a contrasting move to pressure its pressuring of European…
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Is Kaspersky Lab a military unit?
In this article, McClatchy DC bureau claims that one of the certificates the Kaspersky Lab received from Russian FSB/KGB reveals that the entire Kaspersky Lab joint-stock company is actually a FSB military unit #43753.
Kaspersky Lab is a company…
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Has traffic in some hashtags "plunged" since Russia lost access to Twitter?
Russia has blocked access to Twitter and Facebook. Opinions vary as to why, but most speculate that it is to prevent the general public from knowing how the Ukraine invasion is going.
Today, I have seen a number of tweets that suggest this move has…
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Did Mueller indict a Russian company that didn't exist?
Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza just tweeted this:
Is Mueller this dumb? Or does he think the press is too dumb to notice he indicted a Russian company that doesn’t even exist?
This is a reference to the company Concord Catering, which special…
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Were the "DNC leak" emails stolen by the Russian government?
The DNC leak refers to the publication of thousands of private emails of the Democratic National Committee by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks has not revealed their source and some outlets have claimed that "according to the intelligence community" the Russian…
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Is Russia currently deploying troops to Syria?
A recent (31 August, 2015) article from Zero Hedge claims that Russia is currently deploying troops to Syria.
as Ynet reports, not only has Putin not turned his back on Assad, or Syria, but the Russian reinforcements are well on their way. [...]…
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