The court extended the arrest to Kirill Serebrennikov

Until April 19, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov, the former director of the theater, Alexei Malobrodsky and the director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itina, who are accused of theft. The day before, the Investigative Committee said that the investigation of the theft in the "Seventh Studio" was completed. The amount of damage, which, according to the investigation, inflicted the actions of Serebrennikov, increased from 68 million rubles to 133 million. The director rejects the accusations, calling them "absurd." He and Itin are under house arrest, and Malobrodsky is placed in a pre -trial detention center. Only the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva, who testified to her former colleagues, pleaded guilty. Serebrennikov himself accused the accountant of a reservation, and the investigation is that it listens only to Maslyaeva's testimony. In defense of Kirill Serebrennikov and other accused in the “Seventh Studio” case, Russian and foreign cultural figures have repeatedly performed.