"But you have already been brought here ..."

The Moscow City Court left without changing the measure of restraint to the defendants “The case of the seventh studio”

September 6, a complex of the Moscow City Court on the Bogorodsky Val: two buildings, each the size of a nine -fall liner. Near one of the very numerous halls of the court hearings - a shower of one hundred directors, human rights activists, playwrights, critics, composers.

The appeal is considered as the defendants of the “Seventh Studio” case are suppressed. Accountant Nina Maslyaeva in the preliminary conclusion from May 19 p. G. former general director of the Platform project Yuri Itin under house arrest from the same day. Without the right to walk, communicating with relatives, contacting the clinic for medical care.

The famous theater manager Alexei Malobrodsky, director of Platforms in 2011-2012, is in custody since June 21.

... Nina Maslyaeva turns three times to Judge Svetlana Alexandrova, claiming the unwillingness to take part in the meeting, because "this will not change anything." “But you have already been brought here ...” - the judge repeats over and over again.

Lesser lawyers ask to introduce personal guarantees for Alexei Arkadyevich to the case. There are 38 of them. Among the guarantors are Chulpan Khamatova, Elena Shanina, Yana Trojanova, Victoria Isakova, Andrei Mower, Vladimir Mirzoev, Dmitry Bertman, Evgeny Ass, Vasily Sigarev, Lev Rubinstein, well -known theatrical producers Eduard Boyakov and Evgenia Shermenev (people of very different aesthetic and political views united in supporting Malobrodsky). The application of the Association of Film and Television Producers, headed by Sergei Selvanov, and the letter of the Council of Khudruks of the theaters in Moscow (among the signathers, Oleg Tabakov and Mark Zakharov) are introduced to the case.

About the professional scrupulousness of Malobrodsky in protecting the interests of theaters, which he led as the director, witnesses - composer Alexander Manotkov and cultural scientist Anatoly Golubovsky are talking about his managerial accuracy.

But the tired, clearly with difficulty carrying three -hour meeting Nina Maslyaeva was clearly right: "This will not change anything." Like the very reasoned speeches of the lawyers of A. A. Malobrodsky - Ksenia Karpinskaya and Julia Lakhova.

Lawyers say that Cyril Serebrennikov’s “Sleep on a Summer Night” (Malobrodsky, according to investigators, “appropriated” 2.3 million rubles allocated for its production) is impossible: here are numerous evidence, press of the play, and videos. The fact that, according to investigators, their client took part in the activities of the Platform in 2011-2014. Whereas he stopped working in the project in mid -2012 - and there is a record about this in his work book. How were the case file prepared?

The fact that Malobrodsky was taken into custody on June 20 and spent a month in jail without initiating a criminal case. The case was opened only on July 18, at the second stage of the trial. Then, on July 18, in the Basmanny Court, the prosecutor Malofeev indicated: the preventive measure applied to Malobrodsky - the maintenance of in custody for a month without initiating a criminal case is illegal.

But the position of the prosecutor's office was not in this case, took note.

Malobrodsky takes part in the meeting "On Translation" from the pre -trial detention center. From time to time behind him, something loudly grinds. The judge sharply pulls out the video screen: “Hey, in the isolator! Slow down! " Despite this, it is precisely the speech of the under investigation and their lawyers that is clearly heard by the courtroom for 39 places. And the representative of the prosecutor’s office, the investigator, partly and Judge Alexandrov read the texts quietly and monotonously. As if they do not plan to be heard.

... Nina Maslyaeva has no requests to the court. With the exception of this, once again tired of repeated: not to attend meetings. Lawyer of Maslyaeva - the fourth in a row for these months - gently and bewilderedly says: "I, in fact, went into business only in early September ..."

Yuri Itin and his lawyer Yuri Lysenko have the request of “household” (however, this meeting considers only possible changes as it is suppressed and the conditions of detention). The right to walk. The right to examination in the medical center. The right to communicate with the 78-year-old father: he came to the under investigation from Simferopol, had and has no professional attitude to the theaters of Moscow. Now itin has no this right: the investigation included his father - without argumentation - as a number of witnesses in the case.

Lawyers of Karpinskaya and Lakhova and Alexei Malobrodsky speak brightly, harshly, in circumstances - and in fact.

Malobrodsky-that from May the month was interrogated only three times, and no arguments, except transactions to the Platform project (recall: according to the state program for supporting contemporary art, approved by Prime Minister V.V. Putin), was not presented to him.

The fact that "the investigation, with the support of the prosecutor's office, manipulates, juggling non -existent facts ... I demand that this bluff stop."

Lawyers explain again and again: it is impossible to doubt the existence of the play “Sleep on a summer night”; ANO RED “Seventh Studio” is not a one-day company created “for cashing”, but a theater troupe created by Serebrennikov from the graduates of his acting course at the Moscow Art Theater School, the grain of the future theater. They talk about the absence of evidence of abuse, about “technical errors” and actual inaccuracies in the case even after indicating them, not corrected in the materials. On the natural question in such circumstances: how, with what degree of evidence and thoroughness is the investigation?

The court is deleted for a very short meeting. Yuri Itina is given the right to a daily two -hour walk. Nina Maslyaeva and Alexei Malobrodsky is not changed the preventive measure: they remain in jail until October 19.

... The meeting in the "case of the seventh studio" lasted over three hours. Before starting it, I saw on the monitor of the neighboring judicial hall No. 225 the schedule of the hearings. There are appeals in cases not marked by the attention of the cultural public, began at 9.30 - and went almost until the end of the day.

According to the preliminary schedule of the Moscow City Court for each of these, not so resonant cases, fifteen minutes were allotted exactly.