The Yakut newspaper called Roskomnadzor “Roskompozor” because of the film “Aita”

The regional Yakut publication “Yakutsk Evening” published material in which it sharply criticized the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications – Roskomnadzor. The latest issue of the printed publication came out with the inscription “Roskompozor” on the front page.

The reason for criticism against the department was the ban on showing the film “Aita” by Stepan Burnashev, which premiered in March. In the description on one of the popular movie sites, this film was called “a powerful Yakut thriller based on real events.” The plot centers on the mysterious death of a Yakut high school student, for which they begin to blame a police officer of Russian nationality who came to the village. According to data from open sources, the film became the highest-grossing film in the history of Yakut cinema, collecting more than 26 million rubles at the box office with a budget of 4 million rubles.

“Evening Yakutsk” notes that the RKN banned the screening of the film due to “demonstration of inequality of persons based on nationality.” “The country has apparently run out of extremists,” it says. publications publications

Roskomnadzor previously reported that it had sent demands to the owners of audiovisual services “about the need to eliminate the identified violations” – “the dissemination of such information by audiovisual services is unacceptable.”