Nikita Mikhalkov called for the Yeltsin center in Ekaterinburg – RBC

Director Nikita Mikhalkov.

Photo: Anton novoderezhkin/TASS

Nikita Mikhalkov called for the Yeltsin center in Yekaterinburg. Earlier, the Director stated that the center “daily injections of destruction of national consciousness of children”, and aroused the indignation of the widow of the first President of Russia Naina Yeltsin

Director Nikita Mikhalkov has arrived in the Yeltsin center in Yekaterinburg, TASS reported the press service of the centre. “Nikita Mikhalkov has just arrived on a tour of the Yeltsin centre”, they said.

according to “RIA Novosti” with reference to the press service of the Director, Mikhalkov has arrived to Ekaterinburg to fight the Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin and his visit to the capital of the Urals began with a visit to the exhibition of the Yeltsin centre.

9 Dec Mikhalkov, speaking at the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, said that in the Yeltsin center, “daily injections of destruction of national consciousness of children.” He called for adjustments to the programme of the Museum to show a different point of view. The Director stated that there must be a policy, “addressed to ensure that children understand that the country in which they live, a great country”.

Widow of the first President of Russia Naina Yeltsin called those statements “false, having nothing to do with the Yeltsin center, or to its activities.” She also pointed out that Mikhalkov never visited the center.

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December 12 the Governor of Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev invited the Director to visit the exposition.