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A video purportedly showing a pigeon raising its wing as if it were saluting Russian President Vladimir Putin spread on social media on 1 June 2017: Setting aside the fact that this pigeon most likely does not recognize Vladimir Putin or know how to salute, we still know the winged motion shown in this footage is fake. In fact, Ruptly TV, RT's Berlin-based video news agency, posted the original footage YouTube TV along with a message explaining how the pigeon had given Putin the cold shoulder: The original video simply showed Vladimir Putin and an uninterested pigeon passing each other on the streets of Moscow:
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