/ world today news/ Ukraine’s ban on broadcasting films featuring blacklisted Russian actors should not apply to Eldar Ryazanov’s film classics, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Vyacheslav Kirilenko said on the air on Monday (December 28). on “Ukrainian Radio”.
Kirilenko described the ban in question as “controversial” and added that the film “Irony of fate, or a happy bath!”, shot by the famous director Eldar Ryazanov, has already become a classic,” RIA Novosti reported. The Soviet film masterpiece is traditionally broadcast on the eve of every New Year in Russia.
“The film stars (Valentina) Talizina, who…has repeatedly spoken disrespectfully about the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people,” Kirilenko commented on the reasons for banning the film.
At the same time, the minister noted that one of the roles in the film is performed by Liya Akhidzhakova, who has always supported Ukraine. He recommended that Ukrainian MPs introduce a legislative amendment that would exclude Ryazanov’s classic films from the sanctions list, as well as all films made before August 24, 1991.
On December 24, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture published an additional list of the names of 83 Russian and world cultural figures who, in the opinion of the Kyiv authorities, pose a threat to Ukraine’s national security.
The blacklist includes directors Karen Shakhnazarov and Pavel Lungin, musicians Alexander Rosenbaum, Sergey Penkin, Nikolai Rastorguev, actors Vasily Lanovoy, Valentin Gaft, Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talizina, Valentina Telichkina, Natalia Varley, singers Lev Leshchenko, Yosif Kobzon, and others. The frontman of the American rock band Limp Bizkit Fred Durst, boxer Roy Johns Jr., French actor Gerard Depardieu are also on the banned list.
Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, in turn, announced that Moscow does not intend to take retaliatory actions against Kiev and draw up blacklists of Ukrainian cultural figures, as “we are fine with it.”
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