The center of horror

Film director Nikita Mikhalkov proposed changing the nature of the Yekaterinburg Yeltsin Center. According to Interfax, he stated this during the parliamentary hearings on the implementation of the strategy of state cultural policy until 2030.

"In Yekaterinburg, there is a center in which the destruction of the national identity of people occurs daily," Mikhalkov said.

According to him, in the Yeltsin Center ", at the highest technological level, a powerful program is being implemented, which practically destroys the real representation of people about what Russia's history is."

“The conversation is not about closing the center, but to adjust this program. It is destructive,” Mikhalkov emphasized.

“There can be no culture without an objective understanding of history. This is unrealistic,” he added.

Mikhalkov turned to the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko with a request to pay attention to this problem. “It cannot be allowed to go a gear, then it will be too late,” he said. “We heard you,” Matvienko answered him.

The press service of the Yeltsin Center said that the organization’s activities are fully consistent with the authorized tasks and Russian law. “It must be reminded that Nikita Mikhalkov is not the first time publicly acting with the negative assessments of the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, including in his author’s television program“ Besogon ”on the Russia TV channel. The leadership of the Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin deliberately did not comment on his statements, believing that any citizen of Russia had the right to release his point of view on any issue. At the same time, we more than once paid attention to the fact that the famous director never once visited Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg.

The widow of the first President of Russia Naina Yeltsin was also indignant at Mikhalkov's words.

Yeltsin Center was opened in Yekaterinburg in November 2015. His opening was attended by President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as famous politicians and cultural figures.

In February 2016, Mikhalkov called for recognizing the political activity of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin Criminal at the state level. "They committed a real crime. Free-none, guided by ambitions, not about the ambitions, now we are not talking about. Their accomplishments have led to the collapse of our country! And this is the greatest geopolitical disaster that happened for this century," Mikhalkov said.

At the same time, back in April 2007, speaking of the death of Yeltsin, Mikhalkov called him a "strong, large -scale and whole person."