"Pioneer" put the five

The Ministry of Culture at once drew up five new protocols on an administrative offense against the Moscow cinema "Pioneer" for showing the film "Death of Stalin" without a rental certificate. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to lawyer Julia Tai, representing the interests of the cinema.

Officials regarded each show of Stalin's Death on January 25 and 26 as a separate offense. Three protocols were made in article 1 of article Article 14.58 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (demonstration of a film without a rental certificate) and two in part 2 of this article (repeated violation).

According to the law, a re -showing a film without a rental certificate may lead to a closing of the cinema for three months. This will happen if the court in three instances confirms the fact of an offense, and then a repeated violation, the lawyer Tai said.

As a violation of the Ministry of Culture also interprets the fact that in the EAIS electronic system there were 16 tickets sold for this film, for which the money was not returned. The lawyer explained that these tickets were bought for cash and people did not come to the cinema for a return. The Ministry of Culture transferred the protocols to the magistrate court, the date of consideration has not yet been scheduled.

The English comedy "Death of Stalin" was supposed to be released on January 25. However, two days before, the Ministry of Culture recalled a rental certificate from the film . Officials referred to the fact that in the tape there may be "information, the distribution of which is prohibited by law." The next day, the head of the department, Vladimir Medinsky, said that the film was sent for an additional examination. "Many people of the older generation" will perceive the film "as an offensive mockery of the entire Soviet past," the official claimed.

Despite the review of the certificate, Pioneer on January 25, the only cinema was demonstrated by Stalin's Death in three sessions. However, the day after the side of the session, the Cinema Administration announced that she was taking off the tape from the show , referring to the circumstances independent of it.

On Tuesday, the Pioneer was fined 80 thousand rubles according to another mined ministry of the Ministry of Culture - on the show of the Franco -Portuguese film "Sofa Stalin" . For the demonstration of this film, shown on January 26, within the framework of the international festival "finally in the cinema, the cinema was also charged with article 14.58 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The cinema indicated that for shows of films at festivals, a rental certificate is not required. The Ministry of Culture objected that in this case the tape should be officially imported into Russia and registered at customs, but this was not done.

On Wednesday, the justice of the peace was to consider the protocol drawn up on the “pioneer” for the demonstration of the death of Stalin. However, already during the meeting, the representative of the Ministry of Culture revoked the protocol . Then the lawyer Tai did not exclude that this was done in order to prepare new materials and return with them to court.