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Russia exploits Los Angeles wildfires to promote anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “blatant hypocrisy” for allowing prisoners to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti quoted Zakharova on January 12 as saying that the use of prisoners as firefighters is no different from China’s use of forced labor, which the US has … Read more

Putin falsely claims military alliance with ‘most countries around the world’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, while addressing the Defense Ministry Board meeting in Moscow on December 16, said that most of the countries of the world remain Russia’s military allies and partners. ,[W]We need to continue to further expand military and military-technical cooperation with allies and partners who are ready and willing to work with us, … Read more