Is it true that Alla Pugacheva stole an expensive watch at the funeral of Yudashkin?

In early May 2023, there were reports on the blogs and the media that Alla Pugacheva became a victim of theft when she came to say goodbye to fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. We decided to check if this is so.

The news of the theft at the funeral began to spread from May 7. As reported, Alla Pugacheva allegedly filed a statement to the Kuntsevsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with the disappearance of the wrist watches of Hublot worth 2 million rubles. The singer’s direct speech was also given: “This watch was presented to me by the graduates of Factor A for the year before lasting. And yesterday during the funeral of Valentin Yudashkin on Troekurovsky, I noticed that they were gone. ” Some media wrote about this: "Express Gazeta","Notebook","TSN". The news was widely dispersed in Telegram: the missing watches of Pugacheva were reported, in particular, Telegram channels "Trukha⚡️ Ukrainian"(1.1 million views at the time of publication),"Observer🇷🇺🇺🇦"(225 000),"The first patriotic"(218 000),"Type40k goblina (Oper.ru)"(214 000), ATEO Breaking (203,000) and Voblya (172 000).

The first post about Pugacheva's watch appeared on May 7 at 12:40 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "The empire is very evil". In the text of the message there was a fragment that many Russian Telegram channels and the media preferred not to quote, and the Ukrainian, on the contrary, focused on it: “I almost did not contact anyone. Literally two or three people came to me, including Dmitry Peskov. He does not know, he says that he does not know anything. ”

The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov really approached the alla Pugacheva at the funeral of fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. He He greeted With the singer and kissed her hand.

This meeting at the funeral was drawn primarily due to the situation in which the singer and her husband Maxim Galkin were after a large-scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine. Galkin on the first day of the war publicly condemned The actions of Russia, after which he and Pugacheva left the country. Subsequently, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation received denunciation On Alla Pugachev with a demand to check whether she finances the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in the State Duma of the Russian Federation this initiative welcomed. Maxim Galkin Included On the list of "foreign agents".

But in the message of the Telegram channel "The empire is very evil»Peskov is mentioned in one paragraph with the Hublot clock. Back in 2015, politician Alexei Navalny and his associates Published An investigation about a watch worth 37 million rubles, in which Peskov appeared at his own wedding. Later, the president’s spokesman justified himself that his wife gave him the clock.

Thus, in the first publication, one could notice a satirical subtext. A day after this post, the media turned for comments to the official representative of Alla Pugacheva. That answered: “There was no this story, Alla Borisovna did not contact the police, did not give public comments to anyone, apparently, some unscrupulous media invented her comments (like the whole story as a whole).” After that, the author of the Telegram channel more than once made to understandthat she herself came up with a joke about the loss of hours at Pugacheva. In addition, in the description of the channel indicated With direct text: “Caution, a fake and a rigid satire are possible. Written is an artistic fiction, all coincidences are random. ” Satirical posts in this Telegram channel more than once Distributed In blogs and in the media, but already without any irony.

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