Dmitrij Peskov commented on the film's statements director Nikita Mikhalkov , asked to recognize the “Yeltsin Center” foreign agent. “That's not fair. Why is Mr. (Aleksey) Venediktov (ex-editor-in-chief of Echo Moscow” MK “) declared a foreign agent and the Yeltsin Center & ndash; no? Is the” Yeltsin Center “harming less than Ekho Moscow? said the director. & nbsp;
According to a Kremlin spokesman, Russian legislation has clear criteria for notifying & nbsp; & nbsp; a foreign agent. & nbsp; & nbsp;
In response to a question from Vladimir Putin relation to the activities of the Yeltsin Center, his press secretary avoided direct answers.
He recalled that at one time the President visited the “Yeltsin Center” ) Recently, however, “some episodes of the center's work,” according to Peskov, “have provoked widespread controversy in society,” a Kremlin spokesman summed up.