Kirill Serebrennikov confirmed that he was leaving the post of artistic director of Gogol Center. He published a photograph of notifications from the Department of Culture of the Moscow City Hall about the expiration of his contract on February 25, 2021.

The last word of Kirill Serebrennikov in the court in the case of the Seventh Studio Kirill Serebrennikov. Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS We publish the full text of the last word of Kirill Serebrennikov, uttered by him on June 22, 2020 in the process of the Seventh Studio. The process came close to the finale. The prosecution requested the director of 6 years of a general regime colony.

Kirill Serebrennikov, June 22, 2020. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / TASS In the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, the state prosecution asked to admit the director Kirill Serebrennikov guilty of a waste of budget money allocated for the Platform theater project, and to sentenced him to 6 years in prison. "Mediazona" leads online from the meeting and separately publishes a text written by Serebrennikov for his performance in the debate.

August 22. Kirill Serebrennikov was charged with fraud The case of Kirill Serebrennikov In the morning, it became known that the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov was detained on charges of fraud. This happened in St. Petersburg, where the director shoots a film about Victor Tsoi. Serebrennikov was taken to Moscow, interrogated to the Investigative Committee and taken to a pre -trial detention center. The director refused to admit guilt.

The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Kirill Serebrennikov, director: I have one wish for homosexual teenagers: “Guys, leave Russia as soon as possible. You won't be happy here." In 2010, journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created the It Gets Better project.

* In 2010, journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created the It Gets Better project. This site appeared after a series of suicides among LGBT teenagers in the United States, it hosts videos in which politicians, actors, musicians, private people - from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama (read on the 4th cover) - tell teenagers that with age they will be able to overcome all difficulties and a life full of happiness, love and understanding awaits them.

The viewer is as a customer. I often hear: who pays, he orders music. This can be fair for Karaoke, where the costs of the car paid at the end of each song are rewarded with exclamations of the car: “You sing great!”, But it is detrimental in such a subjective business as art in general and the theater in particular. Today's mass Russian viewer, who tasted all the fruits of the consumption society, knows exactly what he wants. The viewer pays for a ticket to get a maximum pleasure ... Moscow.