10:50, 24 June 2019

Georgian cinemas reject Russian-language films

Films with translation into Russian have been stopped in Georgian movie theatres; all films are screened in Georgian or English, the Tbilisi Cinema Association has announced. The restart of screening films in Russian is still open.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On Certain Measures to Ensure National Security of Russia and Its Citizens", according to which Russian airlines are forbidden, from July 8 on, to transport passengers to Georgia. In its turn, the Georgian Ministry of Transport imposed a ban on flights of Georgian airlines to Russia from July 8.

On June 21, law enforcers dispersed the protest action in Tbilisi, launched on June 20 in front of the parliament building of Georgia. According to the Georgian Ministry for Public Health, 240 people were hospitalized, and some of them were seriously injured. Activists began storming the parliament after the Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov appeared in the chair of the parliament speaker. Russian Communist Party MP was attending opening of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy in Tbilisi.

The screening of films in Russian in cinemas of the Georgian capital was stopped on June 20, since the start of protest actions at the parliament, a source from the Tbilisi Cinema Association has announced today.

"Since June 20, films and animations with Russian translation will not be screened anymore in all Tbilisi cinemas. Now you can watch movies in Georgian and English only," the RIA "Novosti" quotes the source as saying.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 23, 2019 at 09:00 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.