Is the mother of Alexei Navalny truthfully with accusations against his wife?

In February 2024, a voice message diverged over the network, in which the mother of a deceased politician allegedly calls him widow Julia a vile and low man and says that he despises her for his attitude to his son's death. We checked whether this is a real record.

The video began to disperse massively on Russian Telegram channels, the media and other sites on February 22. Numerous publications say that the mother of Alexei Navalny, deceased In the colony on February 16, she openly accused the daughter -in -law of betrayals and other “vile” actions. The authors of some posts They thinkthat in this way Lyudmila Navalny "buried the political career of Julia Navalny in Russia."

Posts with this video are published in Telegram channels "Veteran zapis"(137,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Yuri Baranchik"(104 000), Alex Parker Returns (91 000), "Club service"(61 000),"Tsargrad - T"(37,000),"Julia Vityazeva"(28,000) and others. Similar messages were widely dispersed in" Zen ", where only one publication The site Runews24.ru gained more than 900,000 views. In addition, such posts are found in "VKontakte","Classmates" Livejournal and on the media sites (Eadaily, "Notebook").

The viral video (and in fact, the audio recording with the supposedly speech of Lyudmila Navalny and the picture is a subside) lasts almost one and a half minutes. Below are a complete decoding:

“Dear Julia Borisovna Abrosimova (maiden name of Julia Navalny. - Approx. Ed.), Now I want to contact you. You saw my son last time in February 2022. You do not have a ban on entering Russia, not a single criminal case has been opened on you, but you have never come to visit it in two years. In fact, since the spring of 2021, you have not come to marriage with my son, you are publicly appearing in society with other men. It was you who forced him to come to Russia when he only left the coma and could poorly evaluate the situation. You forced you to rewrite all the property of Alexei. You even deprived your own son’s inheritance, because of which he does not talk to you. You set your daughter against your son. It was strange and wild for me to see how you were Smile A few hours after the death of Alexei, speak on his behalf in Munich. How do you appropriate his voice after his death. You didn’t even take a pause for the sake of decency, did not observe mourning. They ran to trade in his death. You are a vile and low person. I despise you and forbid you to speculate on the name of my son, my child. ”

To begin with, "verified" tried to find the source of the message and found the earliest record in the Telegram channel "Signal"(156,000 views), where she appeared on February 22 at 08:29 Moscow time. This post says that Lyudmila Navalny’s appeal was previously published in some media (links are not given at the same time). Recall that the “signal” repeatedly placed fakes, including false covers foreign satirical magazines and fake video pro Vladimir And Elena Zelensky. In addition, in March 2022, it was with this channel that began Disinformation The campaign that Ukrainians falsified the report on the shelling of the maternity hospital in Mariupol. By data “Medus”, “important stories” and The Bell, the “signal” is supervised by the blogger Ekaterina Augarovich (Katrusya), which also represents the “grid” of the channels close to the Kremlin, the media manager of Kristina Drytchik.

On the morning of February 23, on the air of the Rain TV channel viral recording Commented The director of the Corruption Fund Ivan Zhdanov: “Yesterday, some kind of dirt created by a neural network went on the Internet. Something there: "The appeal of Navalny's mother to Julia Navalny" I think that they [in the Kremlin] will act with the same dirty methods, fakes, create something and drain in Telegram channels. "

“Checked”, in turn, analyzed the viral audio using the service Ai or not, which allows you to determine a speech generated by a neural network. According to the results of the audit, the appeal of Navalny’s mother to Julia Navalny was most likely created using artificial intelligence. Some indirect factors also indicate the artificiality of the voice (for example, multiple mechanical interference and distortion are well audible on the record).

In addition, in a week who passed from the death of Navalny, his supporters posted two videos with his mother in YouTube. February 20 Lyudmila Navalny Turned To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin demanding to let her in the body of her son. February 22 (after the post in the "signal") the oppositionist's mother toldthat investigators do not give her the body, insisting on secret funerals. In both videos, the vote and intonation of Lyudmila Navalny differ from those who are heard on the viral audio. Moreover, both Appeals Published In the social network X and the widow of the politician Julia. The viral recording, unlike these two, does not have a video, which at least causes suspicions.

Thus, the audio, which is distributed in the media and social networks, in which Lyudmila Navalny criticizes her daughter -in -law Julia, was forged with the help of neural networks.

Photo on the cover: screenshot/ social networks

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