In October 2024, Russian media and Telegram channels reported that residents of a large Italian city congratulated the President of the Russian Federation on the 72nd anniversary. We checked the reliability of these publications.
Messages that Genoa had placed posters with a portrait of Vladimir Putin and the signature “Happy Birthday, President” in Russian and Italian, began to spread on October 6, 2024, on the eve of the birth of the Russian president. Posts with photos and videos, supposedly shot in a large Italian city, published such Telegram channels as Readovka (817,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Putin in telegram"(185,000),"Voblya • Kursk"(152 000) and"The first folk | News"(113,000). TV presenters wrote about the event in their channels Vladimir Solovyov (226,000 views) and Ruslan Ostashko (116 000). The news also appeared in "RIA Novosti","Newspaper.ru" RBC, "Vesti.ru"And other Russian media.
Information about the action in Genoa began to spread after messages TASS, published in the morning of October 6 with reference to one of the authors of the initiative of Vincenzo Lurusso. In the note, he is presented as a journalist and founder of the Telegram channel Donbass Italy. Another organizer of the action is the Socio-Political Association of Contronarrazione.
Lorusso, calling himself an independent Italian journalist, really leads the Telegram channel Donbass Italia (47,000 subscribers) and the same name channel on rutube, as well as often Gives interview pro -Russian media. In addition, he had a YouTube channel that Blocked in 2023. In the summer of 2024, the Telegram channel "Editor Bumblebee" Published The documentary "Contrary to the Luscoso" documentary. According to this tape, he comes from Rome and is married to a native of the Luhansk region. Lorusso claims that although by the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine he had already led the Donbass Italia channel, at that time he had never been in the Donbass and went there only after his mother -in -law came under the shelling. “Verified” could not be found in the Italian press any materials signed by Lurusso, published before February 24, 2022.
Association Sontronarrazione In his Telegram channel (2900 subscribers) he calls himself a group of activists from Genoa, who "disseminate information for the benefits of people, contrary to lies of the dominant narrative." Judging by the content of its posts, the Association supports not only Russia in the war with Ukraine, but, for example, the Lebanese Islamist group "Hezbollah", Which in many countries of the world is recognized as terrorist.
October 6 at 14:08 Moscow time (that is, a few hours after the TASS note), the Contronarrazione Telegram channel appeared fast About the action: “Hundreds of posters appeared in Genoa on congratulations to President Vladimir Putin with the 72nd anniversary. This initiative is designed to confirm the bonds of solidarity connecting Italy with Russia, despite the Atlantic position of the colonial administration, headed by [Prime Minister], Georgia Melony. Those who really want independent Italy, democratic and egalithic international order and deep social transformations find a valuable friend and ally in Russia! ” In the Donbass Italia channel reports about the promotion were published Even later, mainly Luscoso translated Materials of Russian media on this subject.
The organizers claimed to be pasted on the streets of Genoi hundreds of congratulations on Putin's birthday. In two photographs and three videos published by Contronarrazione, as well as in the video posted in Donbass Italia, “verified” counted 47 posters, and several pieces were placed in each location at once. After analyzing the screenshot of one of the videos using a reverse search by Google images, we made sure that this video was really shot in Genoa near From the Jerolamo Bridge Serra. Ten posters are glued on the side wall of the building on the embankment of the Bizanyo River, next to the automatic machine to pay for parking.
“Verified” was able to identify the location of two more videos and one photo. Four posters from the video published by Donbass Italia, were glued On the wall of the same building, only further from the embankment. Ten other posters got on the video, apparently, posted there a little earlier.
Another video was shot nearby-seven posters were placed on VIA Kanevari Street at the entrance to the building, where there are educational institutions Liceo Economico Sociale and Isss Firpo-Buonarroti. The front facade of this structure also enters the Busanyo embankment. “Verified” sent requests for comments to educational institutions, but did not receive an answer.
Finally, at least one of the photographs posted in the Contronarrazione channel was taken on the opposite bank of the river. Activists glued Eight posters for a transformer booth near the Attilio Firpo bridge.
If we assume that in these three locations the posters were pasted for the same group of activists, then they would spend no more than 10 minutes on the movement between these points.
Postering posters and posters in Genoa regulated municipal legislation, they can be placed only on the surfaces specially designated for this. This can be, for example, separate stands or boards of ads, but not the walls of buildings, transformer booths or gates. Unauthorized posting of posters in wrong places is considered a violation and is punishable by a fine.
In the municipality of Genoa, in response to a request “verified” about the comment, they reported that on October 10, representatives of the authorities investigated locations, where, allegedly, posters with Putin appeared. “Based on the results of the audit conducted by the employees of the operational group to combat tax evasion in the area you specified, not a single illegally placed poster related to this campaign was discovered,” the authorities of the Italian city noted.
For the inhabitants of Genoa, apparently, the action went unnoticed - “verified” did not find messages about it on large city news resources, such as Genova Today, Genova24 And La Voce di Genova. About posting posters on Putin's congratulations reported The publication Liguria notizie (Genoa is the largest city of Liguria province), but its note is fully built on the materials provided by Lusoro and Contronarrazione. The newspaper did not bring any other photos and videos, as well as their own testimonies or comments of eyewitnesses.
Thus, no later than October 6, in Genoa, apparently, in fact, several dozen of the same type of posters with Putin’s congratulations were stuck on the day of birth. This action was held by pro -Russian activists, and for this one small area of the city was chosen for this. Postering of posters was not authorized by the municipal authorities, and the posters themselves, the interest in which local residents had much lower than the pro -Kromelevsky media and bloggers, did not last in their places and several days.
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