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Does the Russian 300mm "guided" rocket 9M949 use gyroscopes made in the USA?
One Ukrainian website seem to claim that:
Керована 300-мм ракета 9М949 ракетного комплексу "Торнадо-С": оптоволоконний гіроскоп для інерційної навігації. Виробництво - США.
in google translation:
Guided 300-mm missile 9M949 missile system…
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Is this a video tour of the building claimed to be "Putin's Palace"?
This video posted to Youtube Jan 29, 2021 purports to be a tour of the "palace" described in The Inside Story of How Alexey Navalny Uncovered Putin's $1.3 Billion Palace.
It is in Russian, but you can set the captions to auto-translate.
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Is or was Putin hiding in a bunker?
There were rumors that due to the Covid pandemic, Putin was hiding in a bunker (his press secretary denied it). Here's just one of many quotes (sorry if my translation is bad).
Right now, somewhere in a bunker near Moscow, sits V.V.Putin, who…
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Was the investigation of the DNC Email Hack performed by anti-Russian activists?
In his The Savage Nation radio broadcast on February 16, 2017, radio talk show host Michael Savage made four claims to discredit the story that “the Russians” hacked the DNC during this past election. (I am sure, also, that part of the reason was to…
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Was a Russian colonel "required to volunteer for the war in Ukraine" as punishment for asking for a washing machine as a bribe?
Polish TVP reports:
Mertvishchov conducted an inspection at a military police station in Moscow. The colonel admitted in a telephone conversation with the station’s management that “the matters related to the recruitment of conscripts were going…
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Did Michael McCaul claim intel briefers told him Tucker Carlson is a Russian agent?
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just said this on the Tulsi Gabbard Show:
Second thing, Michael McCaul […] I got into an argument with him once last year on the phone. He had told somebody that I was a Russian agent or something. […] He said “Whoa whoa…
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Is the woman in this interview the same one in this viral photo of the bombing of the Mariupol hospital?
Some sources (which I find unreliable) are claiming that, the unnamed pregnant Ukranian who were injured in most famous photo of Mariupol Hospital Bombing is the same woman as Mariana Vishegirskava, who was later interviewed by Russians.
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Has Egypt sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia?
Claim: Poland's defense minister Antoni Macierewicz says he believes Egypt has sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia for the symbolic price of $1.
Associated Press, 21/Oct/2016:
Antoni Macierewicz made the claim during a parliamentary…
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Did a Russian Judge meet with Supreme Court Justice Souter?
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During a Q&A Session at a Case Western Reserve University event, Judge John E Jones III gave an anecdote about Justice David H Souter giving a tour of the Supreme Court to a Russian Judge. In this particular story he was recollecting,…
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Is this Strelkov?
The ibtimes site claims that the guy in this image is Igor Girkin, also know as 'Strelkov":
Igor 'Strelkov ' Girkin (C) pictured in Visegrad in 1992 along with a
Russian mercenary and a Bosnian Serb commanderwww.klix.ba
Link to the…
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Is it possible for Armavir to see ballistic missile over Mediterranean (how high was it)?
Some time ago there were several statements about missile launch detection over the Midterranean using russian Station Armavir:
http://rbth.ru/science_and_tech/2013/09/09/armavir_radar_keeps_an_eye_on_the_middle_east_29629.html
Armavir radar…
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Did Sergei Pashinsky say Bayraktar are not effective in combat, and get shot down almost immediately?
In this tweet with an attached video, it is claimed that the chairman of Ukraine's Committee on National Security and Defense Council, Serhiy Pashynskyi said,
“Bayraktar has more PR and corruption than combat use. He has no combat effectiveness.…
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Are these maps captured Russian plans to invade Ukraine?
Pro-Ukrainian twitter user, @TruthsUnchained, tweeted:
#BREAKING
Russian battle plans captured, likely from one of the command vehicles captured.
Battle plans were approved on January 18th and called for a 15 day war to take over…
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Is Sputnik V the first registered vaccine against COVID-19?
Sputnik V vaccine's official website claims that their product is the first registered against the disease.
Sputnik V is the world’s first registered vaccine based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform.
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Did a recent Senate report vindicate the Mueller investigation?
Because according to Aaron Mate:
But the plain text of the Senate report contains no concrete evidence to support its conclusions. Instead, with a heavy dose of caveats and innuendo, reminiscent of much of the torrent of investigative verbiage in…
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