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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Did Yuri Gagarin eat a lemon out a cup of tea when dining with the English Queen?
There is an anecdote, popular in Russia, about Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who was served tea with lemon when dining with the English Queen.
After he had had the tea, he reached into the ...
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Did Stalin's son hide the death of a whole hockey team after a plane crash?
According to World Heritage Encyclopedia, in the Sverdlovsk air disaster of 5 January 1950 almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) died, which was covered up by Vasily Stalin (born ...
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Was the Russian Olympic Shooting Team 12 days late for the 1908 Summer Olympics due to a calendar mixup?
According to an article in Sports Illustrated, referred to by a reddit post, an article about programmer falsehoods, and elsewhere, the Russian Shooting team arrived 12 days late for the 1908 Summer ...
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Does Russia have around 3 million sex workers?
There are some links that mention this, for example:
Ukranian Euromaidan Press claimed in 2017:
There are now well over one million prostitutes in the Russian Federation, a figure that is higher than ...
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Is Russia generations ahead in hypersonic missile development?
According to a news article on Russia Today, Russia is leading the US in hypersonic missile development by generations:
The bottom line is that Russia – in terms of hypersonic missile development – ...
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Is it true that Donald Trump has "no deals in Russia"?
According to Trump's Twitter:
I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy - yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!
Is this statement about ...
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Did Governor of Moscow train bears to serve Vodka?
The Governor of Moscow trained a large bear to serve pepper Vodka to' his guests. If anyone showed reluctance in accepting the drink, the bear would remove the guest's clothes, an article at a time."
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Does Russia recruit a "large number" of people suffering from HIV and Hepatitis C to fight their current war?
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, 25 October, 2022:
Russia’s Wagner private military company has started mass recruitment of russian prisoners who are suffering from serious infectious diseases such ...
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Can Russian electronic warfare systems "shoot down" or even "take over control" of (enemy) drones?
Various reports on the feats of Russian ECW systems in Syria against drones, e.g.
According to a report published by Avia.Pro, an Israeli drone used in an air strike in Syria was shot down by the ...
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Have the Russian state media spread 21 theories about the Salisbury chemical attack?
The U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has recently said in his article (highlight mine):
Our allies have not been deterred by Russia’s usual tactics for avoiding pressure. Sure enough, the Kremlin ...
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Did NATO instruct anti-government neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine on conducting diversions and waging guerilla?
There are multiple claims in Russian press that in 2006 NATO in Estonia has instructed neo-Nazi anti-government paramilitary hate groups from Ukraine on how to conduct diversions and wage guerilla war....
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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-...
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Did the victim of neo-Nazi violence as reported in Pink News die?
From Pink News:
The gay teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by Russian neo-Nazis has died from his injuries it has been claimed [by Spectrum Human Rights].
... PinkNews is unable to verify the ...
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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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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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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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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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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
Russian mercenary and a Bosnian ...
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