https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/a282e23b-ce88-4b6a-9ed6-f77d68ccdcea Alexander Sokurov, a Russian film director, delivered a scathing criticism of Russian state censorship in all areas of culture right on a video meeting with Putin. In a session which is usually filled with praises of government's cultural policy, Sokurov talked about "foreign agents" blanket labels being applied to anyone "whose ideas someone in the government doesn't like" in a completely arbitrary way. Sokurov says that even in the USSR, when his films were censored, he was receiving a pretty detailed description of the fragments that are politically incorrect, but in today's Russia it's simply decision made apparently at an anonymous official's whim. Putin, looking very concentrated, pretends to make notes but eventually makes a bored and angry look. At the end Sokurov quotes Putin's own words "why would we need a world without Russia", paraphrasing it "why do we need Russia without education". Wed, 27 May 2026 18:28:33 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.echelon.pl https://video.echelon.pl/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/a282e23b-ce88-4b6a-9ed6-f77d68ccdcea All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.echelon.pl/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.