Fasting fools

Vladimir Putin said that he did not know in advance about the search with the artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov, and called the initiators of investigative actions to fools. It is reported by Kommersant.

On Wednesday, at the ceremony of presenting state awards in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin, actor Yevgeny Mironov handed the president a letter to Serebrennikov. Later, when Putin talked with awarded in an informal setting, Mironov asked him a question about the director’s search.

According to the correspondent of the publication Andrei Kolesnikov, the actor “hotly and even loudly” asked Putin: “Did you know? Knew about it?” The president replied that he "found out yesterday." "Why? Well, why do this?! You are flying to France on Monday! Why do you need it?!" - quotes Mironova a journalist. “Yes, fools,” Putin answered.

Mironov asked the president of an objective investigation, "without extraordinary methods," and reminded him of a letter in which "everything is stated." Leaving the hall, Putin took the document with him.

On Tuesday, searches were carried out by Serebrennikov and in the Gogol Center he headed. It is also known that the investigators appeared in the Gallery of Vinzavod and to the director of the youth theater Sofya Apfelbaum, which in the past headed the Department of Medical support of art and folk art to the Ministry of Culture. Searches were carried out during operational support of the FSB.

After the searches, Apfelbaum and Serebrennikov were taken to the metropolitan administration of the TFR, from wherethey released after many hours of interrogations in the evening . Serebrennikov passes a witness in the case; He took the obligation to turn to the investigator. The procedural status of Apfelbaum is unknown; After interrogation, she refused to comment.

Even before the end of the search, the Gogol Center began in support of Serebrennikov. Theater staff called on the audience to gather at the institution. On the shares, actress Chulpan Khamatova read out the appeal in defense of the director. It says that Russian theater figures are “shocked by today's events” and know the director of the Gogol Center “as an honest and decent person”. "We express the words of support to our colleagues and hope that the investigation will pass fairly," the appeal says. The letter was signed, in particular, Mironov, Oleg Tabakov, Sergey Garmash, Alla Demidova, Julia Peresild, Victoria Tolstoganova.

Although it became known about the searches in the morning, official information about what was happening was not received before dinner. Only shortly before 14:30, the Central Glavk of the Investigative Committee said that the case of theft by the leadership of the autonomous non -profit organization "Seventh Studio" is investigated 200 million rubles of budget funds allocated "for the development and popularization of the art of the Russian Federation." Theft, the publication said, was committed in 2011-2014.

On Wednesday night, it became known that in the case of the theft of budget funds allocated to the Seventh Studio, its former general director Yuri Itin and former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva were detained . They are suspected of part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale), which provides for up to 10 years of the colony. Now Itin is the director of the Russian Drama Theater. Fedor Volkov in Yaroslavl, and Maslyaev - chief accountant of the capital's theater "At the Nikitsky Gate". Wednesday