Kadyrov: In Chechnya, they will not prohibit the show "Matilda"

In Chechnya, they will not prohibit the show of the film directed by Alexei Teacher Matilda, said the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. "The signals are sent to us secretly: you, they say, can be banned at home. This is what they expect from us! But there will be no ban!" - Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram. Earlier, Kadyrov asked the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to ban Matilda rental in the region.

4 "In Chechnya, they will not spend time watching the immoral, soulless and immoral film in relation to their homeland," Kadyrov added.

According to the head of the republic, the Ministry of Culture gave the film a rental certificate, since budget money was spent on the shooting of the picture. “The Ministry of Culture will not go against himself,” he said.

Nevertheless, Kadyrov believes that works of art that "contradict the interests of the state" should not receive budget financing, since there are topics that "for the sake of higher interests cannot be touched." However, now, notes the Chechen leader, "it has become fashionable to encourage immorality in art." He gives an example the “War” campaign “Dick in captivity at the FSB”, for which activists received the Innovation Award in 2011, one of the founders of which is the Ministry of Culture.

Kadyrov also accused the creators of Matilda of that they "do not leave a single page of" Russian history.

On Tuesday, Komsomolskaya Pravda published to ban Matilda rental in Chechnya . The head of Chechnya accused the teacher of "mockery of the feelings of believers" and "undermining the foundations."

In response to the Ministry of Culture, they said that the agency has no right to terminate the rental certificate of the film in certain regions. They invited Kadyrov to independently resolve this issue with local film distributors.

The teacher’s film is dedicated to the novel by Nicholas II with the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. The campaign against him began last fall the State Duma deputy from United Russia, a former prosecutor of the annexed Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya. She submitted a number of denunciations to the director, in which she stated that “Russia is presented in the film as a country of gallows, drunkenness and fornication,” and in addition, the picture insults “persons officially canonized”, including Nicholas II. In this regard, Poklonskaya demanded to verify the legality of spending budget funds allocated for the shooting of Matilda.

On August 4, it became known that the teacher sent the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika a complaint against knowingly false denunciations.