The long-awaited privatization of St. Petersburg-based studio facility Lenfilm Studio will finally be completed this year, spokesman Alexander Pozdnyakov said Wednesday. By Kirill Galestski, The ...

The privatization of Russia’s oldest film studio has been postponed to give officials time to revise a valuation that directors here dismissed as a fire-sale “bankruptcy” price. The Lenfilm studios in ...

MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday shelved a plan to privatise the country's oldest film studio, Lenfilm, after top directors including the prize-winning Alexander Sokurov protested to Prime Minister Vladimir ...

Lenfilm, one of Russia’s oldest film studios, has been saved from bankruptcy by the Russian government. Culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has announced that the studio, founded in 1918, will not be ...

Lenfilm studio will produce a multi-part series based on a book by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, the agency’s press service announced. The press release does not ...

Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov has resigned from the board of directors of St. Petersburg’s Lenfilm studios in a clash over plans for its redevelopment. Sokurov, appointed last month after ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has transferred to St. Petersburg 100% of the shares of the Lenfilm film studio, which are federally owned. The Government of the Russian Federation must ensure the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has supported the initiative of St. Petersburg veterans to transfer the Lenfilm studio to the ownership of St. Petersburg. This was announced on September 30 by the ...

Speaking about the amount of funds that might be required to restore Lenfilm Sokurov confirmed that, in his estimation, it could be two billion rubles ST. PETERSBURG, October 18 (Itar-Tass) —— The ...