“The Candidate”: a film about the State Duma election from the Signs of Life project
A film by Maxim Pakhomov from the Signs of Life project on the Current Time Doc channel, September 2021. Its subject is Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, a human rights activist and Yabloko’s candidate for the State Duma in a single-member district in St Petersburg. Baptised by Alexander Men, he became a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 2000s, later left it over its position on Ukraine, and is known as a public defender of many political prisoners.