Context: Hero of Labor of Dagestan, film director, chairman of Dagestan branch of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, twice laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Dagestan, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia and the Republic of Dagestan. Signed an open letter of cultural figures expressing 'support for the decision of the President of Russia to launch a military operation to denazify Ukraine and protect the republics of Donbass'.