Offend the artist

The police of the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg following the results of a pre -investigation audit conducted in relation to the activities of the Intonation Example of the Foundation, the founder of which is film director Alexander Sokurov, refused to initiate the case of lack of corpus delicti. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The night before, acting The governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, demanded from the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Umnov and the prosecutor of the city Sergey Litvinenko to find out if Sokurov began a victim of a provocation. "Given the scale of his personality and merits to Russia and St. Petersburg, the temporarily acting governor asks to take care of this issue as close as possible," the city administration said in a message.

Beglov also phoned with Sokurov himself, who is in the hospital after a serious operation.

According to RBC, Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of Vladimir Putin, said on Friday on Friday that his chief was informed about Sokurov’s situation and he “took it into account”.

The audit regarding the "Examples of Intonation" and specifically its director Nikolai Yankin has been conducted for many months, but the information about it fell in the media only the day before . In March, a denunciation was filed to the police; According to some reports, it stated that Yankin committed the theft of budget funds, in particular 3.6 million rubles issued in 2016 by the City Committee on Culture for the Production of the Documentary Film "Experiments".

At the same time, the Committee itself assured that they have no complaints about Sokurov’s fund.

Sokurov, in turn, clarified that the author of the denunciation is a former employee of the fund, who previously occupied large amounts of both the organization and the director himself and still have not returned them. “As far as I understand, the actions of this master are connected with the desire to somehow get away from the need to repay the debt,” said the founder of “an example of intonation”.

On Friday night, RTVI, citing Sokurov , reported that the scammer is called Mikhail Georgievsky, he worked as an engineer for the maintenance of shooting equipment, and also oversaw the Board studio for some time.

As it turned out, Georgievsky had several convictions, which Sokurov was not initially known. “Shortly before our events,” the director noted, “this man wrote a denunciation to one of his friends - an officer of the Navy, completely destroying his fate with far -fetched and aggressive fantasies.”

As part of the audit, both Yankin and his production partners and Sokurov were previously interviewed. With the director, unlike his colleagues, the investigator was communicated not by the Petrograd, but the Admiralty Ministry of Internal Affairs. The official stubbornly sought so that Sokurov himself wrote a denunciation to Yankin. However, the director refused, noting that he highly appreciates the work of the director of the fund and completely trusts him.

Sokurov also noted that the security forces began to show interest in him after his speech at a joint meeting of the Presidential Councils on Culture and Art and the Russian Language in December 2016 - then the director urged Vladimir Putin to pardon Oleg Sentsov . At first, according to Sokurov, there was no pressure. However, after the presentation of the FSB, from the sanction of the court, the director began to listen to the director’s phone.

"If I am in the submission of special services a dangerous person for the state, then why does the president sign a decree (dated December 3 of this year. - Ed.) On the introduction of me to the Human Rights Council?" - the director asked a question.

“Of course, if desired, persistence and provocativeness of the investigation, you can create a criminal one from any situation,” Sokurov concluded. “We know all this. I have said several times that my case is similar to Kirill Serebrennikov’s respected. But, unlike his situation, I do not engage in economics at all and never checked the economic activity of the director, because I did not have any reasons for this.”