In early October 2024, information about the unusual case in the Moscow Region spread in the Russian media: supposedly a local resident demanded that the veterinarians provide her daughter's services, but they refused. We decided to check the reliability of this story.

As follows from the media reports, the woman came to one of the veterinary clinics of the Serpukhov Moscow Region along with the twelve -year -old daughter, who was in a cat mask, with a false tail and moved on all fours. Mother asked to chip the girl, make her a medical card and vaccinate from rabies. After refusing to provide services, the woman scandal and left the clinic only when the staff threatened to call the police. The news about this event was published "Arguments and facts","Moscow Komsomolets" Lenta.ru, "Vesti.ru" Life And the website of the TV channel "Tsargrad", As well as several large Telegram channels:" "Moscow today"(200,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Kosti (158,000), "ND - News of the day"(116 000),"TV Center | TVC"(102 000),"Rhymes and news"(100,000) and others.

Quadrobika (quadrobing)-a child-teenage subculture, the fashion for which arose in social networks. Quadrobors imitate animals: put on masks and tails, move on all fours, make appropriate sounds. Wide fame in Russia this subculture Received After the singer Mia Boyka at her concert in early September 2024 Fleaned Girl-Skvadrober. The video recording of this episode diverged through social networks and caused stormy discussions. Celebrities also joined the discussion: for example, rapper Egor Creed And a journalist Ksenia Sobchak publicly supported the girl, and the actress and ex-deputy of the State Duma Maria Kozhevnikova She sided with the singer. Subsequently, publications about teenage girls began to appear in the press and social networks, walking guys on a leash, about adults, players with children-quoters on the street, and even about the allegedly happening attacks Quadrober for people.

The new subculture was also learned in the leadership of the country. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Discussed Quadrober at a meeting with Armenian diplomats, and presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov He assured Journalists that the Kremlin is trying to "keep this topic outside our agenda." In turn, in the State Duma They started cooking The bill on the prohibition of the propaganda of quadbing.

It is not surprising that against this background the news from Serpukhov caused a wide resonance, but the media failed to find out the details of the incident and get the comments of its participants. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region reported TASS agency that local state veterinary clinics did not receive appeals from the residents of the region on the topic of vaccination and chipping of adolescents. REGNUM agency claimsWhich called the Serpukhov’s veterinary clinics and cabinets, but the viral news was not confirmed in any of the institutions. Moreover, some employees of the Serpukhov Vetlechniks in a conversation with journalists expressed the opinion that this story is someone's fiction. “Our city is small, if this really happened, it seems to me that everything would have already known everything,” - quotes REGNUM of one of his interlocutors.

Often the distribution of such news begins with city groups on social networks: readers send their videos or stories about what they saw there, and later their messages retire large media. However, in this case, everything was different. The first about the incident in Serpukhov Wrote The publication "Regions.ru" on October 7, 2024 at 17:07 Moscow time. City groups Started write About this later, already with reference to the information published in the media. Comments of people who would call themselves witnesses of what happened could not be found.

“Regions.ru” is an online publication officially registered in Roskomnadzor. Its founder is the Publishing House of the Moscow Region, subordinate Government of the Moscow Region. The note that has become the primary source of the news is quoted by the direct speech of an employee of the clinic, but neither his name, nor his position, nor the name of the institution are indicated.

Publication "Regions.ru" about the girl-quarter in Serpukhov is signed by the name of Alexei Seliverstov (he also It is listed editor of the publication). “Verified” contacted the editors to clarify the content of the note, but our written request was ignored. On the phone, the representative of the publication replied that he would transmit our questions to the author of the article and he would contact us, "if his editor is not against it." At the time of publication, this did not happen.

Thus, there is no evidence that the incident described by the Region.ru described in Serpukhov really occurred.

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