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"Russia's recent crackdown on \"things it doesn't want to hear\" may take a nostalgic turn if culture committee member (and kickboxer) Batu Khasikov has his way. He wants to invoke the USSR days by banning foreign films that \"demonize or present Russia in a primitive, silly way.\" He said films showing the nation's citizens as a \"threat to mankind\" should also be a no-no -- like A Good Day to Die Hard and other recent flicks with clich&amp;eacute; Russian baddies. Fortunately for Russian action fans (or not, depending on your taste) that film and others would remain, as any ban passed would only apply to new titles. Oddly, the cultural ministry recently made a list of its top foreign film picks, including Apocalypse Now, which it ironically called a critique of \"capturing foreign territories.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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