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Anton Dolin
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1976-01-23
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Moscow
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Film critic, from 2017 to 2022 - editor-in-chief of the Art of Cinema magazine. In March 2022, shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, he left Russia. Openly opposed the war. On 14 October 2022, the Ministry of Justice added Dolin to the list of "foreign agents".
On 26 September 2025, the Investigative Committee reported that a case had been opened against him for evading his duties as a "foreign agent". On 22 April 2026, Dolin was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison.
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