Ukraine’s National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting is set to
reconsider recent bans on the broadcast of Russian films in the country.
This development follows a request sent by Council head Yuri Artemenko to the Minister for Culture and Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, about the need to review the list of banned films.
According to Mr Artemenko, the list of banned films is based on the list of actors prohibited from entering Ukraine, as a result of which a number of Ukrainian and Soviet productions are affected by the ban. The Council head spoke up for such films as Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980, dir. Vladimir Menshov), Afonya (1975, dir. Georgiy Daneliya), and The Garage (1979, dir. Eldar Ryazanov), among other Soviet classics.
Mr Artemenko’s appeal is supported by head of the Ukrainian Security Service Vasily Gritsak, who has called for a review of the approach to Russian films in Ukraine.
The international security organisation OSCE says there are many daily violations of the Minsk ceasefire accord by both sides.
Ambassador Martin Sajdik, an OSCE special representative, spoke of 4,700 violations in just 24 hours, including deployments of heavy weapons that should have been stored.
Russian is widely spoken in Ukraine - not just in the east - and millions of Ukrainians have ethnic Russian relatives. There was a shared culture in Soviet times, before 1991, and most Soviet-era films can still be shown in Ukraine.
Similarly, Russia has banned many Ukrainian performers. That blacklist includes many Ukrainian pop and rock stars popular in Russia, BBC Ukraine specialist Olexiy Solohubenko reports.
Last August, a Russian court jailed Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov for 20 years for plotting terrorist acts in Crimea. He pleaded not guilty.
This development follows a request sent by Council head Yuri Artemenko to the Minister for Culture and Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, about the need to review the list of banned films.
According to Mr Artemenko, the list of banned films is based on the list of actors prohibited from entering Ukraine, as a result of which a number of Ukrainian and Soviet productions are affected by the ban. The Council head spoke up for such films as Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980, dir. Vladimir Menshov), Afonya (1975, dir. Georgiy Daneliya), and The Garage (1979, dir. Eldar Ryazanov), among other Soviet classics.
Mr Artemenko’s appeal is supported by head of the Ukrainian Security Service Vasily Gritsak, who has called for a review of the approach to Russian films in Ukraine.
The international security organisation OSCE says there are many daily violations of the Minsk ceasefire accord by both sides.
Ambassador Martin Sajdik, an OSCE special representative, spoke of 4,700 violations in just 24 hours, including deployments of heavy weapons that should have been stored.
Russian is widely spoken in Ukraine - not just in the east - and millions of Ukrainians have ethnic Russian relatives. There was a shared culture in Soviet times, before 1991, and most Soviet-era films can still be shown in Ukraine.
Similarly, Russia has banned many Ukrainian performers. That blacklist includes many Ukrainian pop and rock stars popular in Russia, BBC Ukraine specialist Olexiy Solohubenko reports.
Last August, a Russian court jailed Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov for 20 years for plotting terrorist acts in Crimea. He pleaded not guilty.
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