DUSHANBE, April 7, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- A feature-length movie, The Eggs of Fortune , based on sketch show NASHA RUSSIA, is prohibited from screens in Tajikistan.  Moreover, all 63 editions of NASHA RUSSIA are also banned in the country, Akbar Sharipov, the head of the licensing department within the state unitary enterprise Tojikino, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

“The movie is prohibited from screens in the country because it is an insult to the Tajik people,” Sharipov said, adding that the movie is banned by decision of the expert commission for audiovisual products.

Nasha Russia is a Russian sketch show created by Comedy Club Productions.  This show has got a license from the famous English sketch show Little Britain.

According to Shairpov, 300 , a 2007 American action film adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller, a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, has also been prohibited from screens in Tajikistan.  “The movie misrepresents historical facts about Persian-speaking peoples,” said he, “ 300 was recently shown in Uzbekistan and Uzbek authorities also prohibited it from screening.”