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No, this military choir in Russia was not arrested for singing anti-war songs

Posts claim that members of the Russian military choir were arrested for performing anti-war songs. © Observers

Posts shared online claim to show members of a Russian military choir being arrested for singing anti-war songs. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has indeed cracked down on people spreading "false information" about the war in Ukraine, leading to many people's arrests, this video is not an example of that. In fact, it shows an incident from 2015 when the choir performed a song from a James Bond film.

The video shows a group of five men in Russian military uniforms singing in a shopping centre. Within seconds, at least five hooded men dressed in black, part of the SOBR, a unit of the Russian National Guard, violently arrest the singers and take them out of the mall as a crowd looks on.

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