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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Russians flocking to underground showings of Barbie amid sanctions and Moscow ban

Russians are flocking to secret screenings of Hollywood box office hit Barbie despite the film being officially banned in the country under Western sanctions.

Children have been spotted posing for photographs next to cardboard cut-outs of Margot Robbie, who plays Barbie, and Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken, at a shopping centre in Moscow as Russians show they also have an appetite for the infectious hype that surrounded the film.

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