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RFE/RL: Putin rejects calls to release director to attend Cannes premiere

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Russia's theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, charged with fraud, looks out from a defendants' cage during a hearing at Moscow's Basmanny district court on August 23, 2017.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for the release of detained filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov to allow him to travel to the Cannes Film Festival.

Festival organizers said on May 10 that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had written to Putin, asking him to give the 48-year-old Serebrennikov permission to attend the screening of his film Leto (Summer) about 1980s Russian rock legend Viktor Tsoi.

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