Hollywood producer Igor Lopatenok proposed a “laundering” of the reputation of Lukashenko and Aliyev

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The producer with Russian and American citizens offered autocrats to shoot an interview with Oliver Stone. At the same time, Pay the work of Sotrdun: C from the film crew of the film about Nazarbayev, Lapatenok did not.

Autocrats Igor Lopatenok proposed the opportunity to whitewash the reputation through an interview with Oliver Stone. In 2017, Oliver Stone removed the four -part “interview with Putin”, which New York Times was criticized as “servant”, “ridiculous” and “too generous”. In an interview, Putin appears before the American audience in the image of a "tough but fair leader, who became a victim of slander from the hypocritical West."

Stone, a cash register director, who received several Oscar prizes in the 1980s for the director's work, later worked with a spray gun on the film “In the Struggle for Ukraine”, released in 2019. In the film, from a pro -Kremle point of view, the 2014 revolution is described, as a result of which in Ukraine, President Yanukovych’s loyal to the Russian authorities was shifted.

At the premiere of the film “In the Struggle for Ukraine” at the Film Festival in Taormin on the red carpet to Lopatenka and Stone, the Ukrainian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk joined. Medvedchuk is the ally of Vladimir Putin and one of the main characters of the picture. Cooked documents reveal that the film was at least partially funded by Medvedchuk.

OCCRP and “power” were at the disposal of files - electronic letters, scripts and presentations - where Lopatenka’s plans are disclosed to make documentaries that turn on the reputation of Alexander Lukashenko and Ilham Aliyev. The shovel promised that at least two films interviews from autocrats would take Oliver Stone.

Judging by the correspondence of the Lopatenka team, Stone agreed to participate in at least one project - in the film about Lukashenko. “We, the creators of the film, believe in the wisdom and sequence of actions of Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko,” the document notes , on the cover of which the combined portraits of Lukashenko and Stone are depicted. Probably, Stone's plans could change after a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In March 2022, Stone publicly condemned the war, however, noting that the United States “provoked” Putin. As a result, none of the flowing projects of the Lopatenka were implemented.

The shovel offered autocrats to legitimize their actions in the international arena through documentaries. “I believe that such a film meets the potential vectors of activity in“ laundering ” - through culture, sport (from large -scale), international events, conferences. <...> Such rulers always have lobbyists ... However, the laundering of reputation gives greater weight and persuasiveness to their statements about the intentions of modernization, ”commented“ authorities ”by the interest of autocrats in such projects, Alexander Kuli, a professor of political science of the Barnard College of Colombian University.

At the end of 2019, Stone and Lapatolon began work on the film QAZAQ. History of the Golden Man ”about Nursultan Nazarbayev, First President of Kazakhstan. The charity fund controlled by Nazarbayev paid at least five million dollars for the film, OCCRP and “Power” found out . Several people from the team working on the film did not receive the whole fee. One of them, the installation director Yegor Klimovich, made a statement from the scene of the festival in Minsk during the presentation of the film. “Almost the entire team did not receive money for its work,” said Klimovich.