Viktor Shenderovich: “In my repertoire”

"The St. Petersburg City Committee for Culture distributed budget subsidies to non-state theaters. Of the 15.6 million rubles, 15 million was received by one theater - the Russian Entreprise named after Andrei Mironov. The artistic director of the theater Rudolf Furmanov is both a distant relative of the head of the culture committee Dmitry Meskhiev and a confidant Vladimir Putin. This is not even corruption, no. Corruption is embarrassed to show itself off and hides from the Law. And here is another demonstration of lawlessness, a persistent announcement of new rules of the game... PS Upon closer examination, a paradoxical vignette was revealed in this stupid corruption plot: most of the received ones. The theater, it turns out, intends to spend budget money on staging Schwartz’s play “The Naked King”..."