A VIRAL Video Allegedly Depicted An Advertisement at the Oktyabr Cinema on Moscow’s Novy Arbat Showing Armm Russia to Iran Expressing Support for the Iranianian National Team in Its Match Against the United States. We have varified the Accuracy of this Video.

At the end of november 2022, Russian Outlets and Social Media Reported a Message Shown in the Center of Moscow Against the United States at the Fifa World Cup. The Publications Include a Video Allegedly Filmed ONY Arbat Street. IT Shows The Oktyabr Cinema’s Media Façade Which is Used to Air Commercials. The One Filmed Contained the Animated Messages “The USA is Always Little” and “Iran is Always Big” (Both in English) Shown on a Green Background Imitating a FootBall Field. The National Flags of Iran and the United States Appedared on the Screen Together with the Date 11/29/2022 (The Day the Two Countries Match at the World Cup) and Portraits of the Little Big Band and the Caption “Iran, Russia with You” in Russian and Farsi.

Publications ABOUT THE VIDEO WERE PUBLISHED BY VAROUS MEDIA Outlets, Such AS Komsomolskaya Pravda, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Gazeta.ru, OBSHCHCHESTVENNAYA SLUZHBA NOVOSTEI, Federal News Agency, Chempionat, Sports.ru And Moskvich mag. SOME OF THE OUTLETS CLAIM THE VIDEO Appeared in Moscow On Novmber 29, The Day of the Match. The Video Also Went Viral On Social Media Sits, Such AS VKontakte, Ware Its Posted. Nr (224,000 Views), Football | World Cup 2022 (136,000), Champions Cup | Football (100,000) and Moskva 24 (38,000). On Telegram, The Video Was Shared by Novosti moskvy (500,000 Views), Nr (98,000), Moskva 24 (83,000), Vezhlivye Lyudi Svo (80,000), Moskva Live (66,000), Moskovskaya khronika (54,000) and OTHERS. OXAMPLES CAN BE Found on Twitter (Here, Here And Here).

Source: Social Media

To Begin with, Provereno Did Not found Any Other Recording of the Event Taken from Any Different Angles; The Same Video Was Distributed On Social Media and by the Outlets. If the Appeal to the Iranian National Team Had Been Repeated More That on this comercial and posted it online. At Least, We have not managed to find all video or verbal evidence from an eyewitness. That The Video Was Shown Just Once Also Seems Improbable.

Two Observations Are Noteworthy. FIRSTLY, the IS A Mistake in the Phrase in Farsi, Which Was Reported by a Journalist (and Iranologist by Training) Yevgeny Kislyov. “INSTEAD of روLYP (RUSIE, Russia) It is رو#P (RUSBE) But, unFORTUNATELY, this does not mean Anything,“ He Noted on Facebook. Secondly, The Video Contains Portraits of Ilya Prusikin and Sofya Tayurskaya, Frontmen of the Little Big Band. They Left Russia After February 24, 2022, and have Repeatedly Opposed the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. The Band's WebSite States That They Are Currently Based in Los Angeles. At the Time of Publication, The Two Musicians Did Not Comment on the Video On Their Social Media.

According to Provereno Analysis, The Earliest Publication with this video Appeared On Novmber 28 AT 11:50 (UTC+3) On A Telegram Channel Called Putin TEAM and Gained More than 80,000 Views. Earlier, This Channel Has Been Repeatelly Caught Distributing Fake Covers of Foreign Satirical Magazines Such Charlie Hebdo And Titanic; Once, The Earliest Entry with A Fake Cover (That Time, ON A Rocket Fall in Poland) WAS Published there.

The Media Façade at the Oktyabr Cinema is Managed by the LBL Communication Agency. In a Telephone Conversation with Provereno, The Company’s Press Service Denied the Plating of Any Commercial Dedicated to the Football Match Between Iran and the United States. According To Kirill Rukov, Editor-In-Chief at the Village, On the Evening of Novmber 29, Two Reporters co-arbat Street and Vid noted the Screen. “We Can Confirm that this is a fake. We found out out this year - from News on Telegram that was sent to us,” The lbl press system explavs later. It is not not that Village Had Previously Reported The Video’s Appeerance But Later Deleted this Entry.

Provereno Analyzed the Viral Video and Notrid Saveral Details Allowing Usert that Viral Video Was Faked. It Starts with a commercial for kgbt+, a novel by viktor pelevin, and domesting the very first seconding the screen switches to the video iran and the united and the united States. At this Moment, it can be Seen That Part of the Screen Seems to Be Sliding Down. MOREOVER, A White Spot Appears Under the Media Façade, and a Dark Spot Forms ABOVE IT (See The Gif Below, Pay Attend to the Right Part of the Screen).

Source: Provereno & Social Media Collage

The Viral Commercial Ends At the 16th Second of the Tape, And after that an advertisement for the Newbum by Soda Luv Appears on the Screen. IF You Look AGain at the Same Area of the Video on the Right Side of the Media Façade, You Can How The Dark and White Spots Disappear, While the Bottom Line of the Screen Becomes the Same as at the Beginning of the Video (See The Gif Below).