[MeganC]

Then what’s your point in bringing up Julia Davis when the content being posted is 100% Russian without commentary from her?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Then what's your point in bringing up Julia Davis when the content being posted is 100% Russian without commentary from her?"

Reading the info from Russian Media Monitor channel's YouTube, the English translation is hers.

In the first seconds before the truly horrible video, one reads from her:

"Russian Media Monitor provides translations of curated clips broadcast by Russian state media, for the purpose of analysis of state-controlled propaganda, as well as the coverage of newsworthy information provided on the shows."

"Exercise caution and conduct additional research using trusted news organizations to validate the claims and obtain clarifications needed."

So I did.

The video has been spread around enough, that one can look to see "backwards" for sources. None have come to light, other than Davis' Russian Media Monitor, as the "original."

One finds:

"The strange video was filmed in a Russian school, and was posted on social media by Russian Media Monitor."

Russian soldiers baffle school kids with song about 'cleansing' Ukrainians with gunfire Daily Star, UK, 17 November 2023

Uninterested Russian school children subjected to soldiers singing about war Dagens.com (UK) through MS, 17 November 2023

( Dagens.com is part of the Media Group Denmark conglomerate )

In these two instances, one from the Daily Star UK and one from Dagens through MS, the reference URL for the YouTube video URL leads back to Russian Media Monitor, and no previous or secondary source. Ergo her YouTube channel seems an original source as dated, which is also your source as posted.

Looking more closely at the video purported to be something amateur, it requires at the minimum five intercut video leads for the various camera angles and closeups. This is professionally made and edited, though it seems so haphazard and amateurish. And of course the editing is verified by the subtitles which she has provided.

It would be most interesting if you could find a pre-Davis posting. I doubt you will. As Davis advises in her own words, "conduct additional research using trusted news organizations to validate the claims and obtain clarifications needed." Yup. Tried to validate the claims. Couldn't.

Among the YouTube comments were comparisons to Monty Python, Borat and other comics.

If pro-Russian propaganda, it's pathetic. If Ukrainian as part of media battle, it's still pathetic. But as Monty Python, it's marginally less pathetic. Certainly not the stuff of some media exposé.