The director and "Besogon" Nikita Mikhalkov is hospitalized, according to the Baza Telegram channel, he is in serious condition. According to the channel, 77-year-old Mikhalkov was hospitalized in City Clinical Hospital No. 67. However, then the doctors decided to transfer Mikhalkov to another hospital with the help of an intensive care team. The director was diagnosed with covid pneumonia.
Director Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the propagandists who publicly promotes anti-vaccine rhetoric, stories about chipping through coronavirus vaccines, as well as their inefficiency, are devoted to many episodes of Mikhalkov's author's Besogon TV program. It was from this program that the entire broadcasting network of the state channel "Russia 24" on January 1 consisted.