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Is Russia's fiscal break-even price for oil around half of Saudi Arabia's?
According to the philosopher John Gray (Why this crisis is a turning point in history):
An increasing influence on the EU will come from Russia. In the struggle with the Saudis that triggered the oil price collapse in March 2020, Putin has played…
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Did Russia warn the people of besieged East Aleppo that "If you do not leave these areas urgently, you will be annihilated"?
Stephen O'Brien, head of the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) claimed that leaflets are being dropped on eastern Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft, warning residents:
“This is your last hope. Save yourselves. If you…
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Did Kashpirovsky successfully heal people through psychic healing?
Anatoly Kashpirovsky (Russian Wikipedia, English Wikipedia) was a super-famous Russian celebrity, who, in the late '80s, went on Soviet TV and claimed he psychically healed people, and provided pain-relief psycically during surgery over a…
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Did Madeleine Albright say that "Siberia held too many resources for Russia alone"?
I saw this quote here.
Is there any evidence, which confirms or refutes that she actually said and meant (it wasn't a translation error, she didn't later dismiss the statement) it?
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Did Rossiya 24 show an advertisement for Russian women to marry Chinese men?
A clip floating on various subreddits purports to show that:
Russian State TV now shows advertising for Russian Women to marry Chinese Men. Promising them a better life...
The clip seems to show a dating or marriage-arrangement app with…
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Did Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russia's space agency, get photographed performing a Nazi salute in the 1990s?
A photo has been circulating on Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere, purportedly showing Dmitry Rogozin, Russian politician and the chief of Roscosmos, performing a Nazi salute and holding a sign that reads "Whites from all countries unite" (A play on the…
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Did the US break several treaties with the USSR/Russia after 1918?
Source (last paragraph)
*Here’s another fact few Americans know: ever since 1918, the Russians have never once broken any treaty they’ve signed with the U.S., though the U.S. has broken a number of the treaties it’s signed with the USSR/Russia.
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Was Koenigsberg area given to the USSR for 50-year administration rather than permanently?
This article says:
That is how a third of the northern part of Eastern Prussia was handed over for the USSR to manage – until the Peace Conference would decide otherwise. Because Moscow was interested in that never happening (Joseph Stalin would…
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Did Lenin ever say that you could "destroy society through music"?
I've seen the quote:
"One quick way to destroy a society is through its music."
Vladimir Lenin
on (Russian?) Facebook:
Spanish Twitter:
and is also mentioned in the book The Authentic Musician (John Haddix, 2011):
The source referenced there…
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Did Hillary collude with Russia?
On February 18, 2018, the President of the United States of America publicly accused Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia to change the results of the 2016 election.
the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H(illary Clinton)
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Did the amount of bureaucrats increase in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union?
David Graber says in this interview on The Real News,
My favorite example is Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 10 years between, I think it was 1991 or two, and 2002, the total number of bureaucrats went up by 25%. So, if after the…
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Has one of the claims in the Steele Dossier come true?
In this widely shared post @yonatanzunger claims, among other things that:
On Wednesday, Reuters reported (in great detail) how 19.5% of Rosneft, Russia’s state oil company, has been sold to parties unknown. This was done through a dizzying array…
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Has Vladimir Putin been dead, and replaced by a body double, since 2014 or 2015?
Daily Star references a popular and notable set of conspiracy theories that Vladimir Putin died (presumably in 2014/2015) and who you see today is a body double.
As part of the evidence they cite supposed statements from Putin's ex-wife:
An article…
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Is this a video of Russian high school children assembling an assault rifle as part of their core education?
I came across an interesting video found on Facebook. It claims to be high school children in Russia working within a high school course. The interesting thing is that the children are assembling and disassembling an assault rifle. I have my doubts…
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Do sales of baseball bats in Russia greatly exceed the number used to play baseball?
A number of not particularly well reported stories have gone around recently citing a statement that Moscow's chief of traffic police gave to Tass in September of 2015, claiming that "500,000 baseball bats were sold in Russia" in 2014, and that…
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