The investigation was completed in the case of the Seventh Studio

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SK) completed an investigation into the theft of budget funds allocated to the Seventh Studio for the theater project "Platform" in 2011-2014. The amount of damage is increased from 68 million to 133 million rubles.

“The investigation was completed, all the defendants were charged with the final edition,” Irina Poroninova, the lawyer of one of the defendants in the case, director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, Sofya Apfelbaum, said today, January 15.

“According to the final edition of the prosecution, the amount of damage increased to 133 million rubles,” Interfax quotes the Fertin. “The rest of the plot is the same as it was.”

According to the lawyer, the volume of the case exceeds one hundred volumes. In the near future, all the defendants and their lawyers will begin familiarization with the case file.

In addition to Sophia Apfelbaum, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, the creator of the Seventh Studio, Kirill Serebrennikov and several of its former employees: general producer Alexei Malobrodsky, General Director Yuri Itin, chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva, and producer Ekaterina Voronova are held.

Malobrodsky is detained, Serebrennikov, Itin, Maslyaev and Apfelbaum under house arrest, Voronova in absentia was arrested and put on the wanted list.

None of the accused pleads guilty, except Maslyaeva, who concluded a deal with the investigation and testified to former colleagues. On October 12, the Moscow Basmanny Court extended the arrest of the accused until January 19, 2018.

Cases against Maslyaeva and Voronova are allocated into separate production.

In support of Serebrennikov and other defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio, many cultural figures in Russia and abroad, including the European Film Academy , the European Cultural Parliament , the Operational Conference of Germany , the Association of Theatrical Critics , Gidon Kremer , Ivan Zarypaev , Chulpan Khamatova , Ian McCelllen , Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Kalyagin , Alexander Kalyagin, Alexander Kalyagin . Anatoly Vasiliev , actors, directors, writers, playwrights and heads of theaters from different countries, 1300 signatures gathered an open letter from three hundred young Russian cultural figures who demanded to free the defendants in the Seventh Studio, more than a hundred people entered the Cyril Serebrennikov support committee created in France.