Alexander Sokurov: "a Foreign Agent" Is an Awful Definition. Vladimir Putin: What's so Scary About It? the Director Addressed the Human Rights Council. that's What He Said, and What the President Said to Him.

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Vladimir Putin held a video session of the Presidential Human Rights Council on 9 December, the most discussed episode of the meeting being that of director Alexander Sokurov. According to Kommersanta, he did not intend to speak at the outset. In his speech, the director said that the HRC had a "traditional" to avoid "some so-called political issues that required public debate." In particular, he said that Russian universities were becoming less…

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The well-known director Alexander Sokurov uses a meeting in the Kremlin for rarely clear criticism. He complains of censorship, repression and the consequences of the classification as "foreign agent". Putin denies tough measures – despite hundreds of people affected.

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The filmmaker Alexander Sokurov has publicly challenged Putin's state, and that is also eye to eye with the Russian leader in the Human Rights Council.

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The director, Alexander Sokurov, told RTVI that during his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the HRC meeting, he would like to discuss "a million questions," but tried only to talk about "the most sensitive." He noted that he personally was most concerned about the future of Russian young filmmakers, as well as about the fate of Lenfilm.