Two hours of walk and other rituals

On November 27, the Moscow City Court examined the appeal of Sofia Apfelbaum

We'll have to start with the metallic intonation of the Time program of the 1970s:

- According to the results of the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation, D.A. Medvedev, with the creative intelligentsia, a decision was made to allocate funding for the innovative project “Platform”. The decision is backed up by a special resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation. The budget of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has opened a special nominal article “Subsidy to non -profit organizations for the development and popularization of contemporary art within the framework of the Platform project. The speech of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation during the grand opening of the Platform project emphasized its significance.

Everything was so: in 2011. In 2012-2014 The Platform held about 100 performances, concerts, festivals, master classes and more: their posters, videos, reviews of the press on them are on the Internet. But in 2017, “Platforms” in the case, for non-targeted alleged expenditure of funds, the curator of the project Kirill Serebrennikov was placed under house arrest. The “preventive measure” is determined by three participants.

And on October 26, Sofya Apfelbaum, director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, was detained in Moscow. In 2012-2014 S.M. Abfelbaum was the director of the Department of state support of art and folk art of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The Department, fulfilling the Decree of the Government, oversaw the allocation of funds to the “Platform” according to the “Special Name Article” of the State budget.

Six years later, for this, Sofya Mikhailovna was placed under house arrest.

The detention of Sophia Apfelbaum caused a particularly tough reaction - that is, a particularly loud moan - in the theater community. The chairman of the RF STD A.A. Kalyagin said on November 8: “This arrest has qualitatively changed the situation. ... When the legitimacy of the actions of an official who acts on behalf of and on behalf of the government is called into question, a private story ... requires systemic and political generalizations. ”

And then ... everything went and goes along the scheme already rolled over the summer and autumn 2017.

November 27, the Moscow City Court on the Bogorodsky Val, 8: two multi -storey ocean ships with a countless list of halls. The queue for the entrance to the building at 10 in the morning requires half an hour: people go to different meetings. The reference service works. Protection, secretaries, bailiffs with visitors are amiable. Near the hall No. 425, in anticipation of the “Apfelbaum case”, there are fifty shower. (It would be more - but the Ramt Theater on this day only flies home with a tour. They played in Madrid "Democracy"). We all will not accommodate: and the Moscow City Court organizes a broadcast in the neighboring hall. This is already a familiar ritual.

The second ritual: guarantee. To free Sofya Mikhailovna from house arrest, choosing a different measure of restraint, they ask: the STD of the Russian Federation and personally A.A. Kalyagin, director of the Bolshoi Theater V.G. Urin, director of the theater of nations Maria Revyakin and his artistic director Evgeny Mironov ... Lev Dodin. Valery Fokin. Ramt theater and Alexey Borodin. Theater "STI" and its artistic director Sergei Zhenovach. Stanislavsky Foundation. Julia Peresild. Kirill Krok - Director of the Vakhtangov Theater. Andrey Mighty - Khudruk BDT. Viktor Ryzhakov is the Khudruk center of Meyerhold. Evgeny Pisarev - Hudor of the Pushkin Theater.

From the letter to the letter is repeated: 38-year-old Sofya Mikhailovna is one of the most respected theatrical managers of Moscow. She developed the current system for providing grants to leading theaters and orchestras now in Russia - and the system of control of grant recipients. He teaches in GITIS and the Moscow Art Theater Studio. With her participation in Ramt, 15 premieres were released, her absence at work is adversely for the theater.

Neither the judge, nor the fragile young representative of the prosecutor’s office, nor the investigator have nothing against the introduction to the case of letters. And this is part of the ritual.

The third ritual: debate of the parties. The lawyer repeats: before us is an absolutely law -abiding, worthy person ... The process promises to be very long ... The passport of Sofia Mikhailovna is voluntarily transferred to the investigators ... Being in the status of a witness, S.M. Abfelbaum was in all interviews with the investigation ...

And the investigator and prosecutor, in the friendly unity of opinions, repeat: can threaten witnesses (relatives of the director of Ramt will then say with nervous laugh in the corridor: “But we did not know which Sonya is formidable!”) ... It can secretly contact E. Voronova, who was in this case in the international wanted list for a long time for the investigator?! But it doesn’t matter, this is a ritual) ... contacted A.A. Malobrodsky after the start of the case.

... And Sofya Apfelbaum, who is trying to break out of the ritual, speak in the language of logic: yes, we talked with A.A. Malobrodsky. But in the spring, when he did not even have the status of a witness in the case. Naturally, we talked: the Platform project received funding six years ago, I had to recall its details.

But from this rite - calm, almost affectionate - not to jump out. The court is deleted to the meeting. Every second in the crowd at the Hall No. 425 predicts: they will be allowed to walk ...

And indeed: everyone who wants to liberal TV channels is allowed to shoot the final of the meeting (and this is part of the ritual). The court gives the right Sofya Mikhailovna for two hours of walking per day. The next meeting “To change the preventive measure” is December 26.

... Someone gasps later, in the corridor: how, under the New Year?! Someone authoritatively explains: “Maybe a short day, yes! But - they are sitting! " Someone else quickly reports to the FB: “Sonya was allowed to walk. If I could, I would have ordered spring for her now. But - I can’t, and she has to walk in the same thing that we all live in. ”

For three months, Kirill Serebrennikov has been under house arrest. Next week - a new meeting in the "extent of the suppression" for Alexei Malobrodsky. He was still in jail (although he worked for less than a year in the Platform project and had no financial signature right). And then - the premiere of Nureev in Bolshoi.

The performance (like three times the premised “hero of our time”) owes something “platform”: from the time of the “platform” of silverniks began to work with composers of a new generation, which brought excellent fruits in the opera and ballet.

In general: yes, we make kafka by their own. It is the bourgeois respectable kafka. The "process" sprinkled into the reality of the boarding house and office. Its performers are in white collars. They are kind. What is the reason for the process - Joseph K. is not given to know.