{"id":121,"date":"2022-12-09T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equicket.am\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:21:05","slug":"black-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equicket.am\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Black List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/equicket.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Blacklist-cover-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Black List\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<em>Tells the Kafkaesque, true story of Alexander Lapshin, a Russian\/ Israeli travel blogger who, unwittingly, found himself on Azerbaijan\u2019s infamous Black List. He survived, arrest, imprisonment, and a brutal assassination attempt, in a tale more chilling than any invented by John Le Carre\u2019. Caught in a web of international intrigue and blackmail, Lapshin, incredibly wound up being accused of being an Armenian spy and plotting to overthrow the government of Azerbaijan because of casual comments on his travel Blog and a visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, an area claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan.\u00a0\u00a0Lapshin\u2019s arrest in Belarus and subsequent extradition to stand trial in Azerbaijan became an international human rights cause celebre that continues to reverberate until today.\u00a0A terrifying tale of one man pitted against all the machinery of a Stalinist, totalitarian regime.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the project here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feacf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Black-List_Presentation.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/feacf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Revival_Pitch-Deck.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Film&#8217;s Pitch Deck<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Investment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"forminator-ui forminator-custom-form forminator-custom-form-384 forminator-design--default  forminator_ajax\" data-forminator-render=\"0\" data-form=\"forminator-module-384\" data-uid=\"69d9c5b137adc\"><br\/><\/div><form\n\t\t\t\tid=\"forminator-module-384\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"forminator-ui forminator-custom-form forminator-custom-form-384 forminator-design--default  forminator_ajax\"\n\t\t\t\tmethod=\"post\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-forminator-render=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-form-id=\"384\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tdata-design=\"default\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tdata-grid=\"open\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"display: none;\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tdata-uid=\"69d9c5b137adc\"\n\t\t\t><div role=\"alert\" aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"forminator-response-message forminator-error\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><div class=\"forminator-row\"><div id=\"name-1\" class=\"forminator-field-name forminator-col forminator-col-12 \"><div class=\"forminator-field\"><label for=\"forminator-field-name-1_69d9c5b137adc\" class=\"forminator-label\" id=\"forminator-field-name-1_69d9c5b137adc-label\">Name<\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"name-1\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"E.g. 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He survived, arrest, imprisonment, and a brutal assassination attempt, in a tale more chilling than any invented by John Le Carre\u2019. Caught in a web of international intrigue and blackmail, Lapshin, incredibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/equicket.am\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/equicket.am\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">New film<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Black List\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tells the Kafkaesque, true story of Alexander Lapshin, a Russian\/ Israeli travel blogger who, unwittingly, found himself on Azerbaijan\u2019s infamous Black List. 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