The case during the boxing match with Andrei Rudenko and Alexander Povetkin, when the hall rose during the execution of the anthem of Ukraine, indicates that today because of "specialized propaganda" in Russia it is impossible to predict the real reaction of citizens to an event.

This opinion was expressed to the "Observer" by the Russian publicist Alexander Nevzorov.

"I recently saw how the stadium in the Luzhniki Stadium stood on the Ukrainian anthem. We are dealing not just with lies-we are dealing with lies passed through a multitude of reflectors, refractors, through such optics of specialized propaganda that we do not understand what is happening. We have a guaranteed false picture of Russian sentiment. We do not know which way it is false. We just understand that the pressure, which forms the picture they need, is produced for the statistics, the official point of view, "he said..

Similarly, the phenomenon of "getting up the hall in the Luzhniki" is not clear, "the publicist continued.. In this context, he noticed that the reaction of the fans was obviously unconventional. "There clearly gathered not intellectuals, not publicists of Russia, not freethinkers from the" Echo of Moscow "- there were gathered ordinary people who seemed to have had to start whistling and hooting - this did not happen".

"I suspect that in reality everything is not so bad as the media parallel reality offers us," concluded Nevzorov.

Answering the question why the hall made such a gesture, he said: "But he knows it". The publicist, who is accustomed to responsible conclusions, acknowledged that he can not explain this phenomenon - "I do not understand. I only know the fact, but I do not presume to interpret it ".

As reported, on July 2 during the performance of the national anthem of Ukraine before the boxing match between Andrei Rudenko and Alexander Povetkin, the entire central concert hall "Russia" in Moscow stood up.