Andrey Zvyagintsev has no right to a voice on the issue of the conflict in Ukraine, becaus...

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Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film Minotaur received the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second most important prize. While accepting the award, the director addressed Putin: “Millions of people on both sides of the line of contact are now dreaming of only one thing. That it would finally stop...

Andrey Zvyagintsev has no right to a voice on the issue of the conflict in Ukraine, because he did not condemn Kyiv’s actions in Donbas, Peskov said.

“I am not undertaking to judge Zvyagintsev’s creative qualities and I have not seen his new film, which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The only thing that matters to me is that Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody slaughter arranged by the Kyiv regime in Donbas. Starting in 2014, when the war began, if he had done that then, he probably would have had the right to a voice. But now he has no such right,” the mustachioed press sec explained.

Speech Rights Now Require Approved Loyalty

Peskov did not watch the film, but denied the director the right to speak.

Speech clearance now goes to the loyal.