'Don't watch Russian! Russian kills!' Boycott Russian Cinema poster
Black poster with a white film projector whose handle is an assault-rifle grip, throwing a beam in the Russian tricolour, under the Ukrainian words 'Don't watch Russian! Russian kills!' The tells are the transfer of a weapon's stigma onto a projector and the label 'Russian kills', which is attached to a whole category of films rather than to any named film or person.
- Date
- August 28, 2014
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Vidsich civic group, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign (Ukraine)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukraine
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Yatsenyuk Government
- Leader
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Media and information, War and the military
- Event
- War in Donbas
- Techniques
- TransferName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Vidsich, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign photos), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 3.0 (Vidsich activist, permission confirmed via Wikimedia VRTS)
Vidsich (Відсіч) civic group, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
НЕ ДИВИСЬ РОСІЙСЬКЕ! РОСІЙСЬКЕ ВБИВАЄ!
DON'T WATCH RUSSIAN! RUSSIAN KILLS!
The projector and tricolour beam are graphics, not text.
