Russia
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Capital | Moscow |
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Population | 144. 5 million (2017) |
Currency | Russian ruble |
Presidents | Vladimir Putin |
Gross domestic product | 1. 578 trillion USD (2017) |
Area | 17.1 million km² |
Dialing code | +7 |
Location statistical region population | 144.1 million |
Location statistical region gdp nominal | 1.483 trillion USD |
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ID | 405749 |
About Russia
Russia, the world's largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It's famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum's art collection.
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Coronavirus: Russia, the dissemination of US-conspiracy denied on social media
Claims online to claim that The Virus is an attempt to wage an "economic war against China ,"
Russia has flatly denied allegations that there is widespread disinformation about the new Corona Virus Outbreak in the Social Media .
U.S. officials said the Russian-linked accounts have been making unfounded claims that America started the Outbreak .
thousands of profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the Theory , the said officials were offering for sale,.
to Respond to the allegations on Saturday, the Russian foreign Ministry, dismissed them as "fake".
"This is a deliberately false story"
More Than 2,000 people have died, mainly in China , and More Than 76,000 people, the new coronavirus have been confirmed.
The Virus that initially causes in the past year in the province of Hubei in China , a disease of the respiratory tract Covid-19 called.
Maria Zakharova denied allegations by US officials as "false,"Earlier, a senior U.S. state Department, Philip Reeker, said, "malicious" Russian Actors were attempting to sow disinformation about the origin of the coronavirus.
A Conspiracy Theory - the claims online in multiple languages -, The Virus is an attempt to wage "economic war against China ".
"Through the dissemination of disinformation about coronavirus, Russian, malignant actor is the choice to the threat to public safety due to the distraction of the global health response are, Once Again ," Phillip Reeker, acting assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told the news Agency AFP news agency.
The posts also accused Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates involvement in the Outbreak .
More Than 2,000 people died, mostly from ChinaAccording to the news Agency AFP, the disinformation campaign, it was announced that we have identified monitors in mid-January, shortly after the third death from the new coronavirus.
"In this case, we were able to see their full disinformation ecosystem in power, including The State TV -, proxy-web-sites, and thousands of fake Social Media personas of the same subjects press," said Lea Gabrielle , The Head of The State Department's Global Engagement center.
The accounts have already been identified for the replacement of Russian-backed messages on events such as the demonstrations in Chile and The War In Syria . It is claimed that the accounts of people.
The U.S. State Department said the claims were to be made that some countries in Africa and Asia are suspicious of the Western reaction.
Russian television also reported that the Western elites, particularly the USA, are to blame for it.
One of the country's main TV channel, Channel One , launched a regular slot coronavirus conspiracy theories devoted to its main evening news broadcast.
conspiracy theories have also strongly on the channel, One of the most important political talk-show. He suggested that various Western Actors - pharmaceutical companies that help US or the agencies that support them - somehow to create or to spread The Virus , or at least in the spread of panic about them.
russia, conspiracy theories, coronavirus outbreak, fake news
Source of news: bbc.com