{"id":1406989,"date":"2022-03-29T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406989"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:29:42","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-russian-choir-being-arrested-for-singing-about-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-russian-choir-being-arrested-for-singing-about-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A Russian Choir Being Arrested For Singing About Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-a-russian-choir-being-arrested-for-singing-about-peace%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xB4iy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a choir in St. Petersburg, Russia, being arrested for singing a song titled, \u201cno to nuclear war, yes to sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video does not show a Russian choir singing about nuclear war. The video was captured in 2015 and shows several members of the Russian Army choir being arrested while singing a song from the James Bond movie \u201cSpectre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 15,000 Russians have been arrested in the last few weeks for protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2022\/03\/22\/more-than-15000-russians-have-been-arrested-in-anti-war-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Economist<\/a>. One video shared on Facebook claims to show a choir being arrested by Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a group of uniformed singers performing in what appears to be a shopping mall when they are suddenly rushed by men in all black and taken away. \u201cThis video of a military singing group attempting to perform \u2018no to nuclear war, yes to sunlight\u2019 and getting arrested, in St. Petersburg, Russia, is currently blowing up the internet,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The video is unrelated to the recent anti-war protests, however, and does not show a band choir singing a song about peace. An internet search revealed the video dates back to 2015 and was the subject of a 2015 article from RT titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/321013-russian-choir-spectre-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get Unlucky? Commandos \u2018abduct\u2019 Russian Army choir singing James Bond Spectre theme<\/a>.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/25\/fact-check-russian-missiles-ukraine-building-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show A Russian Missile Strike On A Ukrainian Building?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article explains the choir was performing singer Sam Smith\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Sam-smith-writings-on-the-wall-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writing\u2019s on the Wall<\/a>,\u201d the theme song from the James Bond movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2379713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spectre<\/a>,\u201d when the attack occurred. \u201d It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/321013-russian-choir-spectre-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notes<\/a> \u201cthe incident appears likely to be a huge joke \u2013 a publicity stunt on the eve of \u2018<em>Spectre\u2019<\/em> opening in Russian cinemas.\u201d RT is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/microsoft-remove-rt-apps-ban-russian-state-owned-media-ads-2022-02-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state-owned<\/a> and funded Russian media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe performed with the song \u2018Writing\u2019s On The Wall,&#8217;\u201d the director of the vocal group, Kirill Markov, told Russian outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metronews.ru\/novosti\/peterbourg\/reviews\/v-peterburgskom-trk-zaderzhali-hor-russkoy-armii-za-ispolnenie-pesni-iz-bondiany-1178211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metro News<\/a>. \u201cDuring the performance, they were detained by <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/reboot\/meet-sobr-russias-killer-super-special-forces-unit-176619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOBR<\/a> fighters. They were taken to the police station, held and released.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows a choir in St. Petersburg, Russia, being arrested for singing a song titled, \u201cno to nuclear war, yes to sunlight.\u201dVerdict: False The video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}