Russia’s Oscar rigging, Solovyov’s praise for Zelensky, and a Putin ideologist’s Obama portrait What we learned from Ukrainian producer Alexander Rodnyansky’s new memoir

Russia’s Oscar rigging, Solovyov’s praise for Zelensky, and a Putin ideologist’s Obama portrait What we learned from Ukrainian producer Alexander Rodnyansky’s new memoir

In late 2024, Meduza’s publishing house released a memoir by Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky titled Loveless: Putin's Russia in Nine Films. In the book, Rodnyansky recounts his experiences as a key figure in the Russian and Ukrainian film industries over the past decades. He covers the early days of the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1, where Volodymyr Zelensky’s political career began; examines how self-censorship has shaped Russian cinema…