Director Nikita Mikhalkov hospitalized in Moscow. By data edition of Baza, he was hospitalized with pneumonia caused by a coronavirus, and his condition is assessed as serious.
In turn, Interfax informsthat Mikhalkov was hospitalized with the flu. Nothing was said about the patient’s condition in the agency’s news.
Mikhalkov, who turned 77 last October, is known for his ultra-conservative and monarchist views. He is skeptical about the existence of the coronavirus, and especially about vaccination against the disease. In one of the episodes of the television program “Besogon”, in which the director acts both as an author and as a host, he claimed that under the guise of a covid vaccination, a project of billionaire Bill Gates is being carried out to chip people in order to reduce the population of the planet Earth, which consumes too many resources. That episode was taken off the air.
- Last Sunday, January 1, the state television channel “Russia 24”, starting at two in the morning and for almost a day, showed on its air program “Besogon”. Why this particular project was chosen as a New Year’s project was not specified.
- Mikhalkov is one of the most influential people in Russian cinema. He is the president of the Moscow International Film Festival and the chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. He is the winner of the Oscar, the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival.