When Oliver Stone announced at the end of June that he would be premiering a new documentary, “Revealing Ukraine”, at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, not many people noticed. That’s not itself so surprising given his slide over recent years from producing acclaimed Hollywood blockbusters into bootlicking hagiographies of dictators with axes to grind against the United States. The only media that did take an interest was controlled by either the Russian government or a certain Ukrainian businessman.
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An activist holds palcard reading "112 channel smells enemy's propaganda" during protest action in front of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) head office in Kyiv on July 13, 2019, as policemen stand guard at the entrance. They protest against plans to show a documentary film by US filmmaker Oliver Stone called "Revealing Ukraine" on the "112 Ukraine" television channel, with the controversial documentary featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin.
