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Comedian, a risky job in Vladimir Putin's Russia

2021-11-17T18:09:12.734Z


INVESTIGATION - Legal proceedings were recently instituted against several laughing professionals, whose freedom of speech has gradually been restricted with the conservative turn imposed by the Russian president.


Correspondent in Moscow

Laughter, this mass sport practiced against all odds in the country of the great Nicolas Gogol, has once again become a risky activity in Russia. The crew of the hit series

Vitaly Nalivkin

, which aired on YouTube, recently had a devastating experience. On November 4, riot police broke into the house of the author, producer, Andrei Neretin (Vitaly Nalivkin) and the cameraman of the series, in Ussurisk, in the Russian Far East, pinned everyone to the ground and seized them. computers and phones. They are told the opening of a criminal investigation. In question, a scene, broadcast at the beginning of September, whose protagonist is the hero of the series, the deputy Nalivkin,

"president of the executive committee of the district of Oussourisk"

, fictitious, grotesque and vague character who fights corruption, crime and all the social plagues of Russia.

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These young Muscovites who have known for only horizon Vladimir Putin

We see the elected official accompanying the police to a bus stop where a suspicious package was discovered.

Taking matters in hand,

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Source: lefigaro

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