The Kyiv-based agency says the Russian-Ukrainian comedy Eight New Dates cannot be screened at public theaters in Ukraine due to "national security concerns" because it includes the Russian actress Yekaterina Varnava.
Varnava was banned by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) in 2017 from entering Ukraine for five years after she'd taken part in a 2016 comedy show in Crimea without permission from Ukrainian authorities to visit the Russian-occupied region.
Crimea was forcibly annexed by Russia through a widely discredited referendum in 2014 just weeks after Russian military forces seized the territory from Ukraine.
Comment: The referendum is only discredited by those in the West who wish to portray Crimea's reunification with Russia as something other than what it was: the choice of the Crimean people. See:
- Crimea rejoining Russia was will of the people, says Serbian lawmaker
- EU Parliament member and election observer of the Crimea referendum speaks out: EU and U.S. lies are humongous!
- Crimea vs. Quebec: The legal right to a referendum on self-determination
- Lavrov: Behind the scenes, John Kerry deemed Crimea referendum legit, but urged a repeat
- Documentary: Crimea: Unmasking Revolution
- French delegation visits Crimea to see first hand referendum reflected people's will
- Crimea, Donbass, Kosovo, & the Falklands: Self-determination only allowed at the pleasure of the US hegemony
Kyiv's newly announced list of banned films also includes a 2010 U.S. action film called Machete, featuring actor Steven Seagal, and a 2008 French fantasy adventure Les Enfants de Timpelbach that features actor Gerard Depardieu.
Seagal and Depardieu were named to Ukraine's blacklist after they'd also visited Russian-occupied Crimea without permission from Ukrainian authorities.
Before winning the presidency in an April 2019 landslide election victory, Zelenskiy was a popular comedian known in both Ukraine and Russia.
Reader Comments
Here is one i found yesterday... woman from Wales.
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He had a miniature wearhouse/workshop that he'd built/designed, etc. on his land there. It was about 40 X 80. Somewhere, I've got a video of him doing an assay test on a piece of quartz to see if a mine was profitable. Absolutely entertaining and enlightening.
Also, there were his cool, homemade inventions (he was a smith, also). Then, you'd look up at the 15 foot ceiling and you'd see, nailed to the wall (warning sad story, but old.- Twain said the only difference between tragedy and humor is time*) - were about 4? mummies!
He would be working in downtown Grass Valley and have to take down the a side brick wall - and they have about 6" between the buildings, - and in those places were where he'd find cats that sadly had walked in, got stuck, died, got mummified by the dry cold, only to be found by UL ~ 100 years later.
R.C.
Best example: "Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
(In Twain's time that joke would have not have proper.) (Are we yet at the point where folks might laugh at the same joke about how did you enjoy Dallas? Though I love humor, I hope not.)
RC
See the NYT tomorrow; I just KNOW they will print the truth.. (NOT)
*Anarchy is flat out illogical! I could type forever, but why bother? Instead off to bad poetry:
"Get Woke;
Go Broke.
Don't be mistaken;
Instead AWAKEN!
RC