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Journalists From Outlawed Russian TV Rain Gather As Documentary ‘My Undesirable Friends’ Screens Ahead Of NYFF World Premiere


Journalists from outlawed Russian news channel Rain TV recall Putin's brutal media crackdown as doc 'My Undesirable Friends - The Last Air In Moscow' screens ahead of its New York Film Festival world premiere.

Anna Nemzer, former journalist at exiled Russian news network TV Rain, offered a word of warning today — don’t ignore “unpleasant” political signs. It won’t pass,” she said after American filmmaker Julia Loktev ’s multi-part documentary My Undesirable Friends: The Last Air In Moscow screened for press at the New York Film Festival ahead of its official world premiere. The designation, a required scroll under any broadcast or digital content, was met with black humor by the staff of Rain’s popular newscasts.

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