Illegal in funds

Vladimir Kekhman will leave the post of general director of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. This was stated by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Interfax reports .

"He (Kekhman) is now going on vacation, after the leave from the post of general director he leaves. We are considering various candidates for the position of acting general director," Medinsky said. According to the minister, the Ministry of Culture is expected to receive a letter of resignation from the director of the theater within a month.

“This is due to the bankruptcy law of bankruptcy against him. I had a long conversation with Kekhman on this subject,” the Minister of Culture said.

Medinsky explained that Kekhman made such a decision so as not to undermine the image of the Ministry of Culture. "

"After our conversation, Kekhman said that he did not want to wait for a decision of one or another (judicial. -ed.) So that the Ministry of Culture does not look here in an unprofitable light," the minister noted. "The law on bankruptcy, cannot be the manager of budget funds recognized by the court to bankrupt."

Kekhman is currently undergoing bankruptcy. It was extended until July 13. In April 2015, Kommersant said that Kekhman was accused of embezzlement of 18 billion rubles , which the JFC group of companies controlled by him took on a number of banks.

Medinsky assured that the department was satisfied with Kekhman's work. According to him, during his work the director of the theater, the income of the institution grew by almost a half times. “This year will be even better than the previous one. The occupancy of the hall increased, repairs were carried out, including with the involvement of extrabudgetary funds, Kekhman was looking for it. Plus, we plan to open a long -building in September, the theater was closed for many years, there is a magnificent concert hall,” Medinsky emphasized.

On June 28, it became known that Kekhman took maternity leave to care for the child. The acting director was appointed a former regional personnel manager of the Baltika Baltika Snezhana Lyubar. Since the beginning of the year, Lubar has been the deputy general director of the theater.

On March 29, 2015, the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky dismissed the previous general director of the theater Boris Mazhrich after the scandal with the production of the opera Tangaizer. Kekhman, appointed in his place, excluded her from the repertoire.

The opera was delivered in December 2014. The action in it is transferred today. In the version of the director of the director of Timofei Kulyabin, Jesus Christ became the hero of the erotic film, which is shot by the director Tangaizer. After the complaint of Metropolitan Tikhon, who stated that the production insults the feelings of believers, the prosecutor’s office aroused administrative affairs in relation to Kulyabin and Mazhrich under the article "Intentional public desecration of religious or litigation, religious veneration, signs or emblem of worldview symbolism and paraphernalia." At the same time, the metropolitan himself did not look at the performance, and gave the assessment of the production from the words of the audience.

On February 25, 2015, the Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation verification for the presence of an article 282 of the Criminal Code in the formulation of composition (excitement of hatred or enmity).

On March 10, 2015, the justice of the Central District of Novosibirsk, Ekaterina Sorokina, did not find an offense in administrative cases of staging the opera Tangaizer . Things were terminated.