The Russian Ministry of Justice updated the «foreign agents» register on Friday and added film director Andrey Zvyagintsev to it. Along with him, the list also included journalist Mikhail Shevelev, Kazakh blogger and activist Yerzhan Turgumbay, video blogger Pavel Ivanov, and the «Anarchist-35» project.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially demand that Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film «DAU» be removed from the Venice Film Festival program. The festival leadership refuses. What is the vulnerability of both sides of the conflict?

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