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  • and it seems to be true. Figure 1: RT article 22nd of March with claim RT is publicly financed from the budget of the Russian Federation. It is formerly known as Russia Today. The article does not include any statistics or the source of Minister Grushko’s statement. We inquired the source from Russian State Department of European Cooperation. They responded that Minister Grushko’s statement is based on statistics by the Russian Federal Customs Service. Figure 2: A row from statistics on Foreign trade of the Russian Federation translated to English Based on the Russian Federal Customs Service statistics Minister Grushko´s claim is true: The decrease in trade turnover is about 21% from 2019 to 2020. We wanted to find statistics from another source to verify the claim. Statistics are difficult to compare A problem we faced was the incompatibility of statistics. According to the Finnish Customs differences in statistics can be explained by multiple factors. These can be for example the differences in time frames of publishing information (en)
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