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Filmmaker and playwright Andrei Nekrasov was arrested on August 24, 2024, in Russia’s central Smolensk region, the 66-year-old told DW via telephone. He said he was being kept in a detention center for foreign nationals.
Born in St Petersburg, Nekrasov does not hold Russian, but German, citizenship. The German embassy has already established contact with Nekrasov, the Federal Foreign Office confirmed to DW.
The director, best known for his film “The Magnitsky Act” exploring the death of a…
