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Video. Costumed paddleboarders float down Moscow river in carnival

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 90 words · By Nathalie Texier
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What to know about Video. Costumed paddleboarders float down Moscow river in carnival

Hundreds of paddleboarders in elaborate costumes floated down Moscow's Yauza river on Sunday for a stand-up paddleboard carnival.

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What happened

Hundreds of paddleboarders in elaborate costumes floated down Moscow's Yauza river on Sunday for a stand-up paddleboard carnival.

Why it matters

Participants dressed as mermaids, kebab vendors and characters from Russian folklore, including the witch Baba Yaga, while some brought their dogs along for the ride.

Common ground

Live bands and cheerleaders performed on the bridges above as boards drifted past.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Hundreds of paddleboarders in elaborate costumes floated down Moscow's Yauza river on Sunday for a stand-up paddleboard carnival.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that hundreds of costumed paddleboarders participated in a carnival on Moscow's Yauza river on a Sunday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Borisovo (Russian: Бори́сово) is a Moscow Metro station in the Brateyevo District, Southern Administrative Okrug in Moscow. It is on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line, between Maryino and Shipilovskaya…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisovo_(Moscow_Metro)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mytishchi (Russian: Мыти́щи, IPA: [mɨˈtʲiɕːɪ]) is a city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies 19 km northeast of Russia's capital Moscow on the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytishchi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Soviet offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to launch an attack against Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. The controversy began with …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controv…
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Claim 2: “Live bands and cheerleaders performed on the bridges above as boards drifted past.”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that live bands and cheerleaders performed on the bridges as the paddleboarders drifted past.
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web search NEUTRAL — Live bands and cheerleaders performed on the bridges above as boards drifted past. One couple said their mermaid costume began with the tail and grew from there.
https://www.euronews.com/video/2026/08/10/costumed-paddleboa…
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web search NEUTRAL — In addition to the paddleboard procession along the river, live bands played and cheerleaders on bridges added color and cheers for participants along the route.
https://en.thairath.co.th/news/foreign/2951719
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web search NEUTRAL — A proto-Yauza River first appeared in Permian-Triassic period, at which time it flowed to the east of its present riverbed, down today's Izmailovo Gully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yauza_(river)
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Claim 3: “some brought their dogs along for the ride.”
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One specific source (Category:Standup paddleboarding event on the Yauza River...) mentions a 'green dog' in a photo filename associated with the Yauza boat festival costumes, but there is no broad corroboration across multiple sources that dogs were brought along.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Yauza joins the Moskva River in Tagansky District just west of Tagansky Hill, now marked by the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building. Valleys of the Yauza, from the MKAD beltway in the north to the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yauza_(river)
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web search NEUTRAL — Moscow, 'Two Rivers' 2025, Yauza boat festival - costumes - green dog 03.jpg 3,000 × 2,000; 1.68 MB.Standup paddleboarding in Moscow. Two Rivers 2025. Watercraft on the Yauza River. Events with costum…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Standup_paddlebo…
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web search NEUTRAL — The event highlighted the popularity of Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) as a sport that has been combined with recreational activities and community gatherings, creating a fun atmosphere for participant…
https://en.thairath.co.th/news/foreign/2951719
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Claim 4: “Participants dressed as mermaids, kebab vendors and characters from Russian folklore, including the witch Baba Yaga”
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While the event itself is corroborated, the specific costumes (mermaids, kebab vendors, Baba Yaga) are not mentioned in the provided evidence. The evidence for this claim consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'participants'.
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · Synonyms for PARTICIPANTS: participators, players, actors, partners, parties, partakers, sharers, assistants; Antonyms of PARTICIPANTS: nonparticipants, observers, spectators, onlookers, …
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/participants
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web search NEUTRAL — There are 38 nonvoting participants, including 12 married couples. When only half the word-pair was provided, participants were asked to imagine the second word. Of the 136 participants who completed …
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/parti…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · PARTICIPANTS definition: plural of participant. See examples of participants used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/participants
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.