YALTA, Ukraine – One day in October, a dozen armed men in masks drove up to the gates of Yalta Film Studios. They weren’t actors, and this was no make-believe.
It was a hostile takeover, and the movie sets, littered with debris from a Crimean War reenactment and a faux Mexican village, were the target.
“They forced all the employees onto the ground, sealed off the premises and halted the work of the studio,” said owner Sergei Arshinov.
The studio, nestled in hills overlooking the Black Sea, is just one of thousands of businesses seized from their owners since Crimea was annexed by …read more
Source: Metro News
