Russia labels acclaimed filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev a 'foreign agent'
The label adds bureaucratic reporting rules and income restrictions for Zvyagintsev, who has criticized Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
- On Sept 18, state news agency TASS reported that Russia designated Director Andrey Zvyagintsev as a "foreign agent," a label Russia applies to those deemed engaged in anti-Russian activity with foreign support.
- Zvyagintsev, who has repeatedly criticized Moscow's war in Ukraine, won the Grand Prix at the 79th Cannes Film Festival this year for "Minotaur," which critics called "one of Zvyagintsev's most openly critical commentaries on Russia."
- The designation subjects individuals to onerous bureaucratic requirements and income restrictions within Russia; labeled individuals must warn on all publications that content was produced by a "foreign agent," a term carrying espionage connotations.
- Among other cultural figures previously labeled are writer Boris Akunin and rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, while the director, who has lived outside Russia since the COVID pandemic, is known for "Leviathan," "The Return," and "The Banishment."
- In his acceptance speech, Zvyagintsev said "Millions of people on both sides of the front line dream of only one thing: for the massacres to stop," identifying Russian President Vladimir Putin as the only person capable of ending the war.
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According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the country on Friday declared Andrei Zvyagintsev, a recognized film director who has repeatedly criticized Russia's war in Ukraine, a foreign agent.
The Russian government has included Russian film director Andrei Zviagintsev, who is at the San Sebastián Festival this Friday presenting his film 'Minotauro', with which he won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and who has been elected a few hours ago as the representative of France in the Oscars. Minutes after the new coercive measure of Putin's regime became known, the filmmaker has attended ABC: 'One day I had to pass. I have to know well what …
Russia catalogued director Andrei Zvyagintsev as "foreign agent." The Ministry of Justice pursues the acclaimed filmmaker, whose films have been shown in Costa Rica.
In Russia, director Andrei Svyagintsev has been declared an enemy agent.
Moscow has included the Russian director and dissident in his list of citizens accused of engaging in anti-Russian spying activities under foreign influence.
The Russian Justice Ministry has added filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev and journalist Mikhail Shevelev to the register of foreign agents, according to information on the ministry’s website
“A.P. Zvyagintsev participated in creating messages and materials for an unlimited audience by foreign agents, as well as organizations included in the list of foreign and international organizations whose activities have been declared undesirable...
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