In the media and social networks for a long time, you can find the frame allegedly from the broadcast of the Chinese television channel, which depicts a map of Russia, divided between neighboring countries. We decided to check if these messages are true.
March 14, 2023 published a card in Twitter Russian opposition politician, former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov. At the time of writing this analysis, his tweet collected more than 270,000 views. The map and a frame from the broadcast of the Chinese television channel appeared on the Internet earlier: back in July 2020, he published a card in his Twitter Deputy of the Sejm Latvia Alexander Kirsteins, and in April 2022 it was placed in his Telegram channel Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. The greatest resonance was caused by the tweet of Latvian politics: the Russian state media then They wrotethat "in Latvia decided to share Russia." The card also appeared on the Belarusian opposition site "Charter’97"And in the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian Agency UNIAN.
Most often, two photos publish in social networks: the maps and frames from the broadcast of Chinese television, in which this map was allegedly used. These images should be disassembled separately. The card was first published on the Reddit forum July 2, 2020, the project found out Factcheck.kz, and it is not related to the Russian section, which politicians and bloggers from different countries write about. Initially, the picture Placed In the Mapporn community under the heading "The closest country to you, when you are in Russia."
A few days later, the card (with an almost identical original heading) was postponed in Twitter German demographer living in Melbourne Simon Kyustenmaker. And already his tweet was quoted by the Latvian deputy Kirsteins, but with his comment in Latvian: “What do you think, how soon Russia will be divided like this”?
That is, in this case, the card is real, but the image was torn from context and presented as a map of the Russian section.
A completely different story with the second image on which the card is located behind, as claimed, leading one of the Chinese television channels.
All blog entries use the same screenshot, neither the broadcast is found anywhere, or at least an excerpt from it. FACECARS from Factcheck.kz The titer helped at the bottom of the picture. With the help of Google Translate, they realized that the text is about financial markets, and the numbers used were the licensing number of investment analyst Tao Ye From Beijing Zhongfang Xinfu Investment Management Consulting Co., Ltd.
Video with Tao Ye, dedicated to financial markets, was published on YouTube June 30, 2021. Behind him - exchange quotes and graphs, not a map, although the image of the host himself is the same. However, the author of the fake (we, unfortunately, could not establish it) edited the desired frame, adding a map with the names of countries in Chinese and the logo in the upper right corner, even remotely similar to the emblem of the Chinese television channel CCTV, which is often mentioned in viral publications.
Thus, two conclusions can be made. Firstly, the map shows not a possible section of Russia between neighbors, but the nearest foreign state, depending on the location within Russia itself. Secondly, on Chinese television the card was not shown: the screenshot of the ether is an image of the host from the video on YouTube, dedicated not to politics, but to financial markets.
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