Vladimir Putin’s campaign accused of blackmailing Good Bye Lenin! actress

A Russian news website, reported Wednesday that Khamatova, best known in the
West for her role in the 2003 film Good Bye Lenin!, had been blackmailed
into making the video.

“Yes, she was forced, she was threatened,” an anonymous source
working at the charity told Gazeta.ru. “Not her personally, but
children were threatened. They threatened to cut off oxygen to the fund, to
cut off financing.”

Sergei Parkhomenko, an anti-Putin activist, told the BBC Russian service that
he had information that Khamatova was given an ultimatum.

Pro-government commentators claimed the actress was simply exercising her
right to free speech.

Khamatova, who joined Putin on campaign-stop tour of a children’s hospital
this week, refused to comment on the furore Thursday.

Spokesmen for Putin, who is hoping to win reelection to the Kremlin in
presidential elections on March 4, have called the allegations “nonsense.”

“It’s insanity… it’s not true,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov
told the Izvestia newspaper.

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