Oleg Tabakov asks to free Pavel Yurov and Denis Grishcheuk

For 18 days, director Pavel Yurov and artist Denis Grishchuk, captured in Slavyansk, have been captured for 18 days. To the request to free them, the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhova Oleg Tabakov.

Kievans Yurov and Grishchuk arrived in Slavyansk on April 25 to prepare the performance and were detained by the militias of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Journalist Maxim Shevchenko, who came to Slavyansk, failed to agree on the liberation of Pavel Yurov and Denis Grishchuk. The Director of Theater.doc Elena Gremina on Sunday, May 11, published on her Facebook fragments of correspondence on Twitter, indicating that Shevchenko was negotiating in the headquarters of the militia, where they said only to "exchange, hostage to the hostage".

At the end of last week, dozens of Russian cultural figures, including Evgeny Mironov, Ksenia Rappoport, Alexander Kalyagin, Valery Fokin and Mikhail Porechenkov, made an open letter in which they asked to free their Ukrainian colleagues.

On Monday, May 12, the People’s Artist of the USSR, the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhova Oleg Tabakov , as well as actors Danila Kozlovsky , Victoria Isakova and Anna Khilkevich .