Questions tagged [russia]
Use this tag for claims which apply to the country of Russia or the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Are Russian Twitter trolls exploiting the (Feb 2018) Florida school shooting?
According to Tech News World:
Within an hour of the shooting at a Florida High School last week, divisive messages began pouring out of Twitter accounts believed to be controlled by Russia.
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Did Macron say in 2019 it is better to make concessions to Russia on Ukraine rather than let Russia fall in Beijing's orbit?
The Economist states:
Europeans fear that China and Russia are edging towards the formation of a new bloc that will dominate Eurasia. Mr Macron’s pivot to Russia is in part intended to stop it from ...
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Did Ilya Ponomarev confess that he is behind the antisemitic mobs in Dagestan?
On October 29, 2023, an antisemitic mob stormed Uytash Airport near Makhachkala, Dagestan in Russia.
PolitNavigator claims (in Russian):
Fugitive extremist and former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev ...
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Did irradiated Chernobyl firefighters re-volunteer to avoid others being affected?
I don t have any link to the claim right now, but it is heavily repeated where I live. I'll edit to add a link later
A commonly repeated story says that the firefighters that were tasked to stop the ...
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Did British journalists keep silent about Russian defections to Germany in WW2?
In George Orwell's essay, The Prevention of Literature, he claims this:
When Germany collapsed, it was found that very large numbers of Soviet Russians — mostly, no doubt, from non-political motives —...
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Were some Russians killed in a fight with American forces in Syria in February 2018?
I just read a question on history stack exchange that linked to this Feb 2018 National Review article:
On the night of February 7, “pro-regime” Syrian forces reportedly launched an assault on a “...
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Is British MP and Brexit campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg receiving support on social media from known Kremlin networks?
This article, which is being linked and shared on Facebook, claims that British MP and Brexit campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg is receiving support on social media from known Kremlin networks.
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Did Kyiv National Linguistic University publish a map showing that only a few Ukrainians (in the West of the country) speak Ukrainian at home?
Various Russian & other sources give this map (also on P.SE, but probably the most notable of these might be https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/kto-boretsya-s-kem-v-ukraine-i-pochemu/)
Was that ...
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Was Christopher Steele told to stop collecting information about a Trump-Russia ties?
According to The Hill
They do, however, indicate that Steele was told to stop gathering intelligence on behalf of the FBI in November 2016 — building on information already known as a result of the ...
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Did NATO Air Forces start shooting down Russian fighter jets?
In the beginning of October, several news appeared claiming that Russian fighter jets intruded the air space of Turkey. They have been intercepted and escorted away from Turkish air space, but no fire ...
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Does the average Russian drink 250mL of vodka a day?
I've seen this claim a few times around the internet:
The reality is that the average Russian consumes about a pint of vodka a day; or, one-half of a half liter.
Source: Russian Life, 2007
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Can Russia jam GPS as far as Sofia, Bulgaria (with ships)?
It's been claimed by various observers that Russia is behind GPS glitches in Romania and Bulgaria.
The next day, September 1, it was happening again. Pilots approaching Sofia complained of the same ...
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Is this an authentic US army pamphlet about Red Army, issued to soldiers in 1945?
Archive.org contains a scan of an 84-page pamphlet, called "Our Red Army Ally" that purports to be a document published by the United States War Department in 1945, for the purposes of ...
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Were 400 people arrested in Russia for social media posts in 2018?
In a 2019 interview John Anderson interviewed Konstantin Kisin (excerpt, original video). The discussion is transcribed by the OP of Were over 3000 persons arrested in Britain for social media posts ...
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Did Stalin's Russia ban Jew's Harp?
In this TEDxVilnius talk entitled, Jew's Harp, Listen and You Will Hear It: Valentinas & Viaceslavas at TEDxVilnius the following claim is made,
But if we talk about Russia, in time of ...
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Was a Wagner flag flying over the fort in Kidal, Mali?
Radio France Internationale (RFI) claims that this a flag of the Wagner Group flying over a colonial fortress in Kidal, Mali. back in Nov. 2023, when it was captured from Azawad rebels in the Battle ...
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Did Iran send 400 ballistic missiles to Russia?
Reuters still has this 'exclusive' story up from Feb 21, 2024:
Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, six sources told Reuters, deepening the ...
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Were there YouTube ads calling on Russian citizens to disrupt rail routes into Ukraine?
An address from Roskomnadzor states "Earlier it became known that YouTube video hosting users are broadcasting commercials with calls to disable the railway communications of the Russian ...
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Did Downer claim Israel told him to spy on Papadopoulos?
Former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos just tweeted this:
Alexander Downer has made a bizarre, and unfounded, claim and perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Israelis ...
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Was Joseph Mifsud working for Western intelligence agencies?
George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy advisor on President Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign, just tweeted this:
I just have a responsibility to inform America of the truth. Western ...
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Did Russia have over a million universities in 2005? [closed]
According to the European University Institute's Academic Careers Observatory, in 2005 Russia had over a million degree-granting institutions:
In 2005, Russia had 1,196,350 universities and higher ...
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Did the US (ab)use the "deconfliction channel" with Russia to shoot the Syrian Su-22 plane? [closed]
I just read this piece of news:
... the American plane took off from a carrier (George HW Bush), flew over all of Russia's radar and missile sites in western Syria, shot down the Syrian Su-22 in ...
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Did Ukraine set up Russia on the MH17 incident? [closed]
Rebels shot several planes of Ukraine in the last days, after they got their hands on that missile system.
Some say that because of this, Ukraine flight control specifically gave directions to the ...
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Did Washington Post report US diplomats claiming that Russian agents break in their home and shat on their carpets?
I've found today an translated article in Russian language, claiming to originally be from Washington Post. It goes about some guy receiving reports/notes from US diplomats he knows that Russian ...
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Was Gagarin the thirteenth person to be sent to space?
I read this Russian article today that claims that Yuri Gagarin (the first person to journey into outer space) was, in fact, the thirteenth attempt that was finally successful.
Is that correct?
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Did Putin claim that the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas region is pro-Russia?
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Putin has maintained the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas region is pro-Russia, although polls have indicated that is not the case.
This is the first time I've seen this claim, ...
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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 ...
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Did Rasputin have an affair with Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna?
Grigori Rasputin was a trusted friend of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia around 1915.
There is a popular rumour that he was having an affair with Nicholas's wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
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Is Russia funding environmentalist groups to protest fracking?
Leaked transcripts from a private Clinton speech suggest that Russia has given large amounts of money to environmentalist groups in Europe and the US to promote protests against fracking, according to ...
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Do Russians need to disclose their encryption keys to the Federal Security Service? [closed]
Is it true that in Russia, citizens have an obligation to send copy of all of their private encryption keys to the Federal Security Service (FSB), even without receiving a specific demand?
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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....
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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, ...
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Did Artem and Anna Dultsev's children really have no idea that their parents were connected to Russia? [closed]
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has claimed that the children of Artem and Anna Dultsev (two of the Russian spies who were part of the August 1, 2024 prisoner exchange) did not know they were ...
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Did the EU prohibit the transport of Russian fertilizer to non-EU countries, so that only the EU could purchase it?
Reportedly Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia
accused EU officials of “selfishness, cynicism and hypocrisy” for prohibiting European carriers from transporting Russian ...
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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.
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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:
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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
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Is it possible for Armavir to see ballistic missile over Mediterranean (how high was it)? [closed]
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/...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Are these maps captured Russian plans to invade Ukraine? [closed]
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 ...
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Did a recent Senate report vindicate the Mueller investigation? [closed]
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 ...
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Are Russian made weapons poor in quality?
It is often said in various media and newspapers that Russia manufactures low quality defense products:
Why are Russian arms technologies and military professionalism always said to be behind the US ...
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Has there been a "buildup" of 175,000 Russian troops on the Ukraine border in January 2022?
Numerous news items have claimed or implied a buildup of 100,000 Russian troops and hundreds of tanks and armoured personnel carriers along its borders. Most are vague about the exact location. The ...
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