“Do you want to turn us into Muscovy?” – Putin responded harshly to the venerable liberal director
Discussions between President Vladimir Putin and director Alexander Sokurov at the Human Rights Council caused a great resonance in Russian society. Sokurov gave a long and confusing speech, in which everything was mixed up: the plight of the inhabitants of the Russian North, Belarus and Syria, whom “poor Russia” is forced to feed, the “persecution” of the ex-head of the Petrozavodsk branch of the foreign agent organization “Memorial” Yuri Dmitriev, who departing...