The Kremlin believes that nothing happened at the meeting of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation that would require an apology from director Alexander Sokurov, or threatened his life, reports TASS.
“We have seen media reports [about Sokurov’s letter of apology], we believe that during the meeting [of the HRC], during a very, very interesting and meaningful discussion that took place at the council meeting, nothing happened that would require any kind of apology,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the journalists’ question about the letter of apology from the filmmaker.
Earlier it became known that Sokurov sent an appeal to the head of the HRC Valery Fadeev. According to media reports, in the letter, the director apologized for his statements and allegedly told about the threats coming to him.
Recall that on December 9, at a meeting of the HRC, director Alexander Sokurov said that the republics of the North Caucasus today have a pronounced “national character”, and offered to release those who do not want to live with Russia. In response, Putin criticized the filmmaker’s position. Later, Peskov explained that the harsh words of the president soundedbecause, unfortunately, the director, very unprofessionally and without knowledge of the subject, began to touch on very important, delicate topics.
Subsequently, the Chechen parliament appealed to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov and the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin with a request to check the legality of the statements of director Alexander Sokurov.