Culture figures supported Kirill Serebrennikov

Today, May 23, actress Chulpan Khamatova came to the Moscow Gogol Center and read out the appeal of cultural figures in support of the theater and his artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov, who searched the employees of the Investigative Committee (SK).

According to the rain channel, in addition to Khamatova, more than 20 artists and directors signed the appeal, including Evgeny Mironov, Oleg Tabakov, Sergey Garmash, Alla Demidova, Julia Peresild and Victoria Tolstoganova.

The actress was listened to dozens of people who came to the Gogol Center building to support the theater.

The appeal began with the words: “We, colleagues and friends of Kirill Serebrennikov and the Gogol Center Theater, are shocked by today's events. Kirill Serebrennikov, one of the brightest Russian directors, whose merits are recognized not only in our country, but throughout the world. We all know him as an honest, decent and open person. The work of the talented leader and the entire theater was interrupted by a sudden search. ”

On her behalf and on behalf of her colleagues, Chulpan Khamatova expressed the hope that "the investigation would pass objectively and fairly - without unnecessary cruelty to the persons who touched the investigation, and will not violate the creative activity of the theater, troupe and Kirill Serebrennikov himself."

This morning it became known about the searches in the apartment by Serebrennikov, at the Gogol Center Theater, which he leads, as well as the director of Ramt Sofia Apfelbaum and in the center of modern art “Vincuvod”.

According to the representative of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Julia Ivanova, searches are related to the investigation of the criminal case of the theft of a large amount from the budget allocated to the Seventh Studio.

We are talking about a case, which in 2015 was initiated by the Moscow Directorate of the SK under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code . According to investigators, unidentified persons in 2011-2014 stole about 200 million rubles of budget funds.

At about 15:30 Moscow time, Serebrennikova, who is taking place in this case as a witness, was taken away for interrogation in the UK. Gogol-Center turned to the audience with a request to support the theater and come to his building on Kazakova Street.