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RFE/RL: Moscow cinema fined for showing Stalin comedy

Published Feb. 22, 2018 at 4:52 pm

A view of the Pioner (Pioneer) cinema in Moscow on January 26, 2018.Russian police on January 26, 2018 raided a central Moscow cinema after it screened British comedy 'Death of Stalin' in defiance of an earlier Culture Ministry ban on the film. The ministry withdrew permission for British director Armando Iannucci's film, which satirises the death of the director, on January 23, 2018 after Russian officials and arts figures labelled it offensive and "extremist." / AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV

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A movie theater in Moscow has been fined 100,000 rubles ($1,750) for showing the banned satirical film The Death Of Stalin.

Russia’s Culture Ministry withdrew permission last month for the British-directed film to be shown in theaters, just days before it was supposed to premiere in Russia.