Victoria Bonya at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival

The organizers of the Cannes Film Festival were reproached for supporting the actions of the Russian government due to the appearance of Victoria Boni on the red carpet: the network found her old photos in a T-shirt and swimsuit with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin. and concluded that Bonya was his supporter. Diversity was also at the center of the scandal, which added photos of Boni on the red carpet to the photo essay.

Twitter users (blocked in Russia) were outraged that a person who publicly supported the Russian president was on the red carpet, despite the fact that the Russian delegation was not invited to the festival and the accreditation of Russian journalists against the background of the Russian military special operations. in Ukraine.

Let alone going on the red carpet, why was he invited?

Why wasn’t he banned because he was a media supporter of Putin? what the heck?

– Writes a user on Twitter under the pseudonym @bashirov81 and draws attention to the Variety broadcast.

Victoria told Super that people just wanted to start a scandal and accused critics of double standards. She also added that she worked with the future President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the set of the movie “8 First Dates”, but no one remembers this.

said Bonya.

Earlier, Ksenia Sobchak also commented on the appearance of Victoria Boni on the telegram channel, which noted that the photographers did not notice Bonya on the red carpet and returned when leaving.

Victoria Bonya did not leave the joke of the TV presenter without comment:

– wrote on the telegram channel.

The organizers of the Cannes Film Festival made an exception for directors Kirill Serebrennikov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexander Sokurov. On the eve of Serebrennikov, he presented his new painting “Tchaikovsky’s Wife”, which received a standing ovation from the audience.