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Judge of the Basmann District Court of Moscow Elena Lenskaya satisfied the application of the investigation and sent Cyril Serebrennikov under the home arrest of the artistic director of the Gogol Center. The broadcast from the court led the "Mediazon".

Serebrennikov is accused of organizing the theft of 68 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 to implement the Platform project.

The investigator asked the court to place the director under house arrest until October 19. “Taking into account that Serebrennikov is accused of a serious crime, he can hide from the court,” the investigator said. According to him, if the accused remains free, he can affect witnesses in a criminal case or destroy evidence.

Serebrennikov himself asked not to deprive him of freedom. "I have been working in Russia for many years, I did a lot of work here, I’m not going to hide anywhere, so I ask you to let me go. I still need to finish several current works," said the director.

“The charged is impossible and absurd,” said Serebrennikov. “My position is that the Platform project took place. The money allocated by the state was spent on it. I am very proud of it.”

According to Serebrennikov, he was not engaged in the financial support of the "platform", but was responsible for artistic content in it. “I did not give any testimony for other employees of the Seventh Studio, since I do not know anything about any abuses on their part,” the director said.

The director of the director Dmitry Kharitonov asked to let his client go on bail. "I ask you to consider the possibility of making a pledge in the amount of damage stated in the case, the lawyer said. I am ready to introduce this pledge myself. Although neither I nor Kirill Serebrennikov have such money, but I think that we will be able to collect such an amount."

The witness of the defense of the chief of the "new literary review" Irina Prokhorova said that she was ready to make a deposit in any volume. She noted that she has known Serebrennikov for the past 15 years. “From my point of view, he is an outstanding director, and I would say that he brought our country to the advanced theater movement,” Prokhorova emphasized.

The directors of the Serebrennikov in court were also made by directors Alexei Mizgirev and Andrei Smirnov.

The guarantors for Serebrennikov were several dozen public figures and artists, including the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsin Natalia, the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the Hudor of the theater of Europe, Lev Dodin Hudor of the Theater of Nations, the Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers, Alexander Kalyagin, directors Andrei Smirnov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Fedor Bondarchuk, Fedor Bondarchuk, Actor Danila Kozlovsky, TV presenter Andrei Malakhov, pop artist Philip Kirkorov, founder of the Hospice Foundation "Vera" Nyuta Federmeser, and many others. The judge introduced their guarantee to the case.

About 500 people gathered near the court building, the correspondent of "faces" reports. They applauded, chanted the director’s name, shouted “Freedom!” Police in Megaphone called on citizens not to interfere with the work of the court and free the roadway. The audience met the court decision shouting "Shame!"

At the Basmanny Court building. Shooting Yuri Timofeev:

The traditional "shame!". Serebrennikov Home arrest for 2 months Pic.twitter.com/0nxrhzdebj

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Viktor Shenderovich at Basmann. This is not Meyerhold Pic.twitter.com/j67uwdmaca

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Ulitskaya at the Basmanny Court. Words can be disassembled? pic.twitter.com/exlcplje6c

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Director Oleg Dorman at the Basmanny Court https://t.co/azoofhsaxp pic.twitter.com/negpmndeu5

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On Wednesday, theater critic Marina Davydova published an appeal to Russian theaters in connection with the beginning of the season and the detention of Serebrennikov. “We really have the opening of the season, and this is what you can’t do in the near future is to tell you about new plans, declare festival programs, present a variety of projects, conduct some“ schools of a young director ”as if nothing happened. The first and main points of all press conferences, all presentations, all interviews of the Kirillus, and all theatrical“ Ivens, should be the question of ”the case of Cyril. Serebrennikov " - regardless of the outcome of today's court session," Davydova wrote.

On Tuesday, Serebrennikov was detained in St. Petersburg, where he was on the set of the film, and delivered to Moscow. The press service of the TFR said that Serebrennikov was officially charged under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). "During the interrogation, he did not plead guilty as the accused," the TFR noted.