The Basmanny court extended the house arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the house arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov, the chief accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva and the former CEO of the Seventh Studio Yury Itin until January 19, 2018, as well as the term of detention of the ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky, also until January 19. It is reported by Mediazona.

In the investigation's motion to extend the house arrest, it was stated that the guilt of the defendants was confirmed by the testimony of other defendants, protocols of confrontations and other materials of the case. Of all four, only Nina Maslyayeva admits guilt. The petition stated that at large the accused would be able to make contact with her and each other, agree on versions, and destroy evidence.

Despite the objections of all the defenders, the judge added to the case a lot of new materials: protocols of the interrogation of the witness Sinelnikov dated May 31 and June 17, 2017, the protocol of the confrontation between Sinelnikov and Malobrodsky, the testimony of “witnesses Zhirikova and Filimonova” (they reported the alleged presence of a “black box office ") and others.

Lawyers insisted that the submission of additional materials is not required by law. The judge refused to announce a break for familiarization with the new materials of the case until tomorrow.

List of new cultural figures vouching for Serebrennikov, Malobrodsky and Itin: according to Meduza , it includes singer Iosif Kobzon, director Stanislav Govorukhin, actress Alisa Freindlikh, actor Oleg Basilashvili, actor Sergei Yursky, rapper Oksimiron (Miron Fedorov), actor Sergei Bezrukov , director Pavel Lungin, actor Artur Smolyaninov, actress Natalia Tenyakova, actress Alla Pokrovskaya, artists and producer Pavel Kaplevich, actress Anna Mikhalkova, actor Alexander Petrov, directors Boris Khlebnikov and Vadim Abdrashitov, actor Gosha Kutsenko, poetess Larisa Rubalskaya, actor and musician Nikolai Fomenko, actors Yuri Kolokolnikov, Alexander Filippenko, Veniamin Smekhov, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, Anna Chipovskaya, Marina Neelova, producer Alexander Tsekalo, singer Alena Apina, writer Zoya Boguslavskaya, artist Zurab Tsereteli, musician Boris Grebenshchikov.

Sobchak, Khamatova, Prokhorova and others came to support Serebrennikov.

Serebrennikov, as well as the former general producer of the Seventh Studio, the ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky, the former general director of the organization Yuri Itin and the ex-chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva are accused of embezzling 68 million rubles allocated from the budget for the cultural project "Platform" ( part 4 article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).