Mikhalkov announced the date of the first Russian Oscar ceremony

Nikita Mikhalkov, People's Artist of Russia, Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, announced on October 20 that the first ceremony of awarding the Open Eurasian Film Award "Diamond Butterfly" will be held on November 27 at Workshop 12.

The first ceremony of awarding the Open Eurasian Film Award "Diamond Butterfly" will be held on November 27 at Workshop 12," he said in an interview with TASS.

The founders of the new film award are the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Russian Cultural Foundation. The presentation of the academy and the award itself took place on April 22 on the stage of Workshop 12. According to the terms of the competition, the winning film in the main nomination "Best Film" will receive an award equivalent to $ 1 million, and the winners in other nominations will receive $250 thousand each.

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Mikhalkov was joking, an actress from Kazakhstan burst into tears, and Sasha Kiselyova fell.

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) Vladimir Medinsky announced on September 6 that the Diamond Butterfly Film Award of the Eurasian Film Academy will be implemented in several countries. According to him, the Russian Federation is proposing a larger-scale project within the framework of the unification of various film academies of several countries.

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