Russia says it accepts US denials over supplying Stinger missiles to Syrian rebels but claimed it was co-ordinating weapon supplies and providing logistical support, RIA Novosti reports.
"He documented his denials of the accusations against him.
The deputy prime minister said he believed Shapps's denials but then suggested the contested account going by the name of "Contribsx" could have been run by Michael Green – the alter ego used by Shapps to write a series of get-rich-quick guides.
Some in the army were angry over his repeated denials that Debaltseve was surrounded, despite evidence on the ground that almost no supplies or ambulances had been able to get through since 8 February.
Two weeks earlier Turner had called on the prime minister to investigate Shapps over his repeated denials, which turned out to be false, that he had acted as "web millionaire" Michael Green while an MP.
As the issue of second jobs has risen up the political agenda, the Conservative party chairman has been taken to task over his controversial past – most recently by LBC's Shelagh Fogarty who extracted three denials from Shapps that he had worked as Michael Green after 2005.
Updated at 12.59pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.45pm AEST03 45 Here is Bramston's response to Shorten's denials that backgrounding is going on.
The edit was made two weeks after Turner called on the prime minister to investigate Shapps over his repeated denials, which turned out to be false, that he had acted as "web millionaire" Michael Green while an MP.
Related: Police investigate Alistair Carmichael's false denials over memo leak That sounds like the kind of answer that brings politics into disrepute, but in fact it's a pretty fair summary of what everyone knows about politicians and equally (sometimes more culpably: see recent City scandals) about public performers in general.
Rouhani's administration has tried to revamp Iran's image, especially concerning the official attitude towards the country's Jewish community, after it was badly tarnished under his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was notorious for his Holocaust denials and antisemitic tirades.
It's also the more subtle responses; the denials and challenges, often repeated over and over, that prove the points that feminist writers are making.
