![]() #The last bastion tv series seriesMarketing literature for the NTV series details a plot revolving around a CIA agent infiltrated into Pripyat and tasked with gathering intelligence on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat.Īccording to media reports, Russia’s culture ministry is helping to fund the NTV show with a $460,000 grant. It is being produced in Belarus and raises the idea that foreign-inspired conspiracy may have had a hand in the explosion of reactor No. NTV, which is owned by the Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom, intends to provide patriotism with its own series. Writing in the Moscow Times, Ilya Shepelin, a broadcaster with Dozhd, an independent media outlet, says the slurs are partly rooted in “jealous resentment” and “says more about the critics than it does about the series.” He added: “The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel tells us about our own heroes is a source of shame that the pro-Kremlin media apparently cannot live down.”īut other independent observers argue the major offense of the HBO mini-series from the Kremlin’s perspective was its lack of Russian patriotism. The Moscow weekly Argumenty i Fakty dismissed the show as “a caricature and not the truth.” Stanislav Natanzon, an anchor at Russia-24, one of the country’s main news channels, joked, “The only things missing are the bears and accordions!” But Kremlin partisans, pro-government commentators and newspapers have torn into the HBO mini-series, claiming it tarnishes the image of Russia as a great nuclear power. ![]() ![]() Cast of HBO's Chernobyl miniseries pose for group photo at Tribeca Film Festival in New York.Ĭritics and audiences have placed the show at the top of IMDb’s list of highest-rated television series, ahead even of Game of Thrones, and the mini-series has been praised by historians for its authenticity. ![]()
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