At the end of August 2023, a video was encouraged, where it was supposedly shown how the President of the Russian Federation tried to look at the time on the clock on his left hand, although he wears them on the right. The video, in particular, revived the discussion about the alleged availability of doubles. We tried to figure out this story.
On August 22, a short video dispersed over the network, which captures the episode of one of the meetings with the participation of Vladimir Putin. The authors of numerous posts on social networks and publications in the media claim: the politician forgot that he does not wear a watch on his left hand, and tried to look at them on time. Moreover, on the record, it really can be seen that the Russian president brought his left hand with a bent brush to him and looked at it.
For example, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko (2.8 million views of the post at the time of writing this analysis) wrote In the social network X (former Twitter): “Putin forgot that he wears a clock on his right hand. Or is it not Putin? What's happening?" A similar reaction was The Russian politician Lyubov Sobol (297,000 views): “How can this be explained? He really always wore a clock on his right hand. ” There are also publications on the presence of the president of doubles. For example, the Twitter account "Electric-Uralsavr" (238,000 views) Commented The popular video is like this: "When the double was wearing a clock on his left hand all his life, and according to the script he had to put on the right." And the publication The Insider (286,000 views) joked: "The new clone is mastered in the role of Putin."
Russian sites News.ru And "The main regional»Name the episode of the" courier. " About how the Russian president embarrassed, and Ukrainian publications wrote about his possible dementia "Correspondent" OBOZREVATEL, "Channel 24" NV And "Censor.net". Talking about how Putin forgot on which hand his watches are worn, ex-deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma Nikolai Bondarenko on his YouTube channel “Diary of a deputy” (265,000 views) remindedthat recently, French President Emmanuel Macron allegedly tried to hide the expensive clock during an interview - “verified” already Reit That story. Putin's allegedness posts are also found in "VKontakte" Tiktok, Facebook and Telegram - for example, in the channels of Ukrainian bloggers and journalists, among which Anatoly Shariy (837,000 views), Sergey Sternenko (266 000), Yuri Butusov (143,000) and Andrey Tsaplienko (128 000).
Putin actually has a watch on his right hand for many years, which is confirmed by numerous photos And video. At the same time, the Russian president has repeatedly explained why he does not use his left hand for this. So, in 2002 during the "direct line" about this habit of it asked TV presenter Ekaterina Andreeva:
- There is another question. Mr. Foss, the city of Moscow. The question that I took away, by the way, is also very interested in: “Why does Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich carry hours on my right hand? Are you left -handed? "
- This is a habit. No, I'm not left -handed. I love them to hang on my wrist. But this clockwork head, if on the left hand, then it is just turning towards the hand and rubs all the time ... It hurts ... That's the whole secret, there is nothing special here.
The same Putin Repeated In 2018, on the media forum of regional and local media, Pravda and Justice: “I already said: so as not to pick out them from there ... They hang on my wrist. And if you hang them on your left hand, then this groove head is spinning - it is inconvenient, it hurts. Therefore, I outweighed them here. This is a long time. "
As for the video we have analyzed, it is genuine and was cut out of the video recorded on August 22, 2023 during a meeting of the Council on Strategic Development and National Projects, which Putin Spended by video communication. At the same time, in the vast majority of the above posts and news notes, a six-second passage of broadcasting from the Telegram channel "You listened to the lighthouse" - this can be understood by his logo in the lower right side of the video.
Complete Record The meeting was published on the official website of the President of Russia. The whole video lasts 1 hour 43 minutes, and the desired fragment begins at 54:41 - at this time Putin is hearing a report by the deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Minister industry and trade Denis Manturov.
The first thing that catches the eye when comparing original personnel with the version from “You listened to the lighthouse,” was the viral video was Crusted, that is, it lacks a significant part of the visual series. In the source entry on Putin’s table, numerous piles of documents with which the politician worked during the meeting are noticeable. When reproducing the reproduction, you can see that in a viral passage, Putin began to look at one of the papers lying to his left, even before he raised his left hand. Moreover, he holds his hand almost pressed to the body - right above the edge of the table, to which the elbow adjoins, although it would be more convenient to stretch out the brush in front of him to view the wristwatch. At the end of the passage, the president puts his left hand on the documents viewed earlier.
“Verified” studied the whole meeting and found two more points when Putin held his left hand in a similar way, working with papers. Thus, this position of the brush does not necessarily prove that the president at this time wanted to look at the clock.
Ukrainian edition NV I tried To explain Putin’s alleged mistake as follows: “Probably, during the meeting, the head of the Kremlin regime became bored, and he took off the clock and began with them playAs he often does it with improvised objects, and then he just forgot what kind of hand he put on them at all. ” However, this argument does not seem to be wealthy, since almost all the time of the meeting the clock was on the right hand, and for the first time lying on the table they can be seen only at 1:38:58, that is, about 44 minutes after the viral passage.
As for the theory about Putin's double, it is not possible to prove or refute it by the data of the open data with methods of open data, but this was not the purpose of analysis.
Thus, based on the above arguments and the analysis of the video, it is highly likely to say that Putin did not forget what hand the clock was on, but simply held his hand for a moment to read the documents.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / kremlin.ru
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