Theaters are against repression

On June 28, a joint of solidarity with the arrested defendants in the Seventh Studio case will be held in different Russian theaters: before the play, the actors and directors will make support of the accused, the video of these performances will be distributed in social networks.

The former leaders of the Seventh Studio were arrested in the case: the general producer Alexei Malobrodsky and chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva were sent to the pre -trial detention center, general director Yuri Itin was placed under house arrest. All three are accused of embezzlement of 200 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 for cultural projects, including for the play "Sleep on a Summer Night", which, according to the investigation, was not delivered. Meanwhile, the production was carried out, the performance received a number of theater awards and is still going on in the Gogol Center.

“We demand that it (Malobrodsky. - Ed.) To be released during the investigation, he is not a criminal and was not going to run anywhere,” the initiators of the joint action said. “We hope that all the suspicions will be withdrawn and in the end it will become clear that“ the seventh studio “did not spent in vain, all the allocated funds have gone to the performances and other events of the theater.”

The appeal emphasizes that the investigation has no evidence of the guilt of the defendants. “It seems to us that participation in this action as many theaters as possible is important not only for the good name of our comrades, but also for the further fate of the theater brotherhood and the reputation of the whole theatrical business in Russia, questioned, as this can affect, and and applies to other theaters,” the initiators of the action write.

They publish the words of Malobrodsky, transferred from prison: “For my whole life - I am 59 years old - I have earned almost anything except my good name. I am afraid that now in the general consciousness there will be a trace:“ And, the same Milobrodsky who stole the money. ”I want to say that he is innocent.”