Is it true that the late Vladimir Menshov was shown during the concert at Luzhniki on March 18, 2022?

An allegedly fragment from a broadcast of a recent concert is being circulated on social networks, which shows the director who died last year. We have verified the accuracy of such messages.

On March 18, 2022, a rally and concert was held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in honor of the anniversary of the reunification of Crimea with Russia. According to Moscow police estimates, he visited more than 200,000 people: more than 100,000 “in the area adjacent to the stadium” and another more than 95,000 “directly in the stadium itself.” An event where spoke Polina Gagarina, Timati, Oleg Gazmanov, “Lube” and other artists, visited and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among the celebrity guests, according to some users of social networks, Vladimir Menshov, an Oscar-winning director, was also noticed. dead July 5, 2021. Relevant publications dialed hundreds of likes and reposts on Twitter. Similar publications also appeared on YouTube, V Facebook* and in "VKontakte", although they did not become as popular.

Internet users use as confirmation either a fragment of the broadcast where Menshov, together with Vladimir Putin, as well as other artists and athletes, performs the Russian anthem, or a screenshot of that broadcast. However, we watched the entire recording: at the concert on March 18, 2022, the anthem performed at the very beginning of the event. Vladimir Putin came out to the crowd after about 40 minutes: he addressed the public with a speech, then the broadcast was interrupted, and the audience saw Oleg Gazmanov’s performance. On other published videos noticeably, that shortly after the end of his speech, Putin left the stadium bowl. There were no shots of Menshov in this broadcast.

Menshov, along with his colleagues and Putin, did indeed sing the Russian anthem, but this happened more than four years ago. Then, March 3, 2018, at Luzhniki passed a rally-concert in support of Putin's nomination in the next presidential election. Famous director in that election campaign became the candidate's proxy, so he presence at such an event it was quite logical.

Apparently, the original source of this story is a video, published on the YouTube channel of a Kiev resident named Arthur. According to the service data YouTube DataViewer, the video was published around 13:00 Moscow time on March 20, 2022. Tweets that went viral, in turn, usually included a screenshot publications Denis Gerashchenko, which he made on Facebook*. This post appeared shortly after the YouTube video.

Thus, social network users manipulate information: they present fragments and screenshots of videos made back in 2018 as very recent. This is probably due to conspiracy theories regarding the recent events at Luzhniki, which appeared due to Putin’s unexpectedly interrupted live speech. Menshov passed away from the consequences of the coronavirus last summer and could not take part in the concert in March 2022.

*Russian authorities think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, is an extremist organization; its activities on Russian territory are prohibited

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