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RFE/RL: Russia said to Bar British comedy ‘The Death of Stalin’

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published Jan. 23, 2018 at 9:43 pm

People with portraits of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gather outside his museum in his native town of Gori, some 80 kms outside Tbilisi, on March 5, 2017, on the 64th anniversary of Stalin's death.

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Russia’s Culture Ministry has revoked the license for the showing of the British comedy film The Death Of Stalin, state-run news agency TASS quoted a cinema official as saying.

Olga Lyubimova, acting head of the ministry’s Cinema Department, said the decision was made on January 23, two days before the film was set to open in Russian theaters.