Conditional terms - conditional joy

To begin with, as expected, a fairy tale. From the director Yana Tumina .

Three years ago, the artist was told: if your picture is known throughout the world, if it is confirmed by witnesses-the pride of the country, why did you not save the check on the canvas and paints? So you didn't buy them? Oh, you stole money? !!

Witnesses say: wait! If he stole, what and how did he create a picture? Isn't the picture on canvas? Not written in paints? Not exhibited in the museum? She is not? If the money is stolen, if it is not spent on art, then what are you admiring now? What are you evaluating?

The court answers: numbers. Return the money!

And now a quote from the sentence, which was announced yesterday in the philistine court of the city of Moscow.

“At the hearing, it was established that Serebrennikov, Itin, and subsequently Malobrodsky, having united in a pre -organized group under the leadership of Serebrennikov, distributing criminal roles, developing a complex crime mechanism, which involves a multi -stage preparation plan, as well as a consistent and systemic nature of criminal actions, which was designed for a long period of time from 2011 to 2014, being found in Moscow, being in Moscow, being in Moscow, being in Moscow, being in Moscow, being in Moscow Sunday, interested, using each time their official position, made fraud, that is, the theft of someone else's property, namely , state funds, ”read Judge Mendeleeva. “ Serebrennikov carried out the general leadership of all members of the group and took measures to conceal theft . ”

Yes, organized crime group. No less. Well, since it has been “installed” - it is logical to wait for them to go according to the stage. Moreover, the prosecutor's office demanded for accused from four to six years in prison.

But no, the court decided that " the correction of the defendants is possible without their isolation from society . " As the theater expert Ella Mikhaleva said: “ I was extremely inspired by state optimism yesterday: they say, Serebrennikov is not hopeless. I think the Gogol Center must be bail a stumbled comrade. To say, shame, Suvorovets Trofimov (the film “Officers”), and accept for re -education in a healthy team. As they practiced in the good old days, when the character of Gerdt in the film “Seven Nania” says: “One young man convicted of theft was taken on bail and now honestly works at the pasta factory . ”

Laughter laughter, but involuntarily you think: what was it? “ The verdict was written under the real term, this is obvious, but the final team is given another one, ” the head of the legal department of “Russia sitting” Alexei Fedyarov concludes. - Redeing the whole was not either time, or desire, or both. Therefore, a couple of paragraphs of the motivating part, and trousers turn into elegant shorts . ” A slightly different angle (side view) is offered by Konstantin Dobrynin from Pen & Paper: “ When the court wants, but cannot pass an acquittal, he passes such a quasi-true conditional sentence ” (quoted by “Vedomosti”). Olga Romanova , head of the Rus Sitting organization, called this sentence a “ fur coat from the bark shoulder ”: she believes that someone called the judge during the break ...

Probably, the lawyers of the convicts-and people are convicted, or, as for some reason they say in the zone, “condemned”-will submit appeals. Because the innocent should be fully justified. However, the global inconsistency of the text of the sentence with its main conclusion does not give me rest. God give, if it is just a lack of time, in the unwillingness of the judge to strain or even in the goodwill of the judge, which is limited by evil forces. Or lead the highest forces. I have been living in our climate for more than a dozen years, horror stories are lighting. It seems to me that a very dangerous min is laid down in the verdict and we were all left on this minefield - to breathe, to create, to live. After all, the prosecutor's office also has the right to appeal the verdict. For example, after the first of July. People of the theater know that there is no unnecessary props on stage.

Therefore, they rejoice and hug, and in their eyes they have anxiety. Writes the theater, Julia Bolshakova Lidova : “I breathed out with my mind , but emotionally slow down: intuition does not let go of something unclear very alarming. I myself do not understand this condition that does not allow to relax ... "

And I understand you, Julia Borisovna. After all, the fate of convicts is still under a big question.

The theater critic Andrei Pronin writes: “ It’s too early to celebrate the victory, let's wait for all appeals and other things. The verdict is terrible ... Well , unless for the Apfelbaum is not very terrible, and Malobrodsky from the “ main villain”, for whom he was given the investigation, was unclenched into a secondary one. And for such a terrible sentence, the selected deadlines and conditional punishment look inappropriate. So it’s too early to relax. ”

The theater department Olga Weisbein writes: “ Well, of course, because no one was taken out of the court in handcuffs, Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexey Malobrodsky, Sofya Apfelbaum and Yuri Itin are free! Sonya is so without annexes and indemnities. When they recognized the verdict, the crowd just roared with joy. People rejoiced and hugged, spitting at any social distance. Many went to celebrate. I am ashamed, but I can’t join the general glee with an open soul. There is a heavy precipitate and thoughts about what we did with us in recent years, if we have to rejoice that they slandered innocent people, tormented for three years, defeated their honor and dignity, stole a priceless life and work, pronounced a conviction with huge fines and a prescription to compensate for mythical damage for an unreal amount of 129 million, but still not Planted, benefactors. But they could be a razor in the eyes, as they say. "

The theater community and the future of the entire workshop are worried. The theater department Olga Fedyanina writes in Kommersant: “ We must pay tribute to the state - the distinctness of this signal was hastened to almost directly confirm and strengthen. Already during the announcement of the verdict, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that it is necessary to “carefully analyze how the expenditure of state funds in cultural institutions is carried out in order to reduce the possible corruption in this area” -that is, simply put, predicted the self-proclaiming wave of inspections and an increase in the number of inspectors. And not a completely new Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, again without waiting for the end of reading the sentence, announced that the Ministry of Culture is taking legislative measures to "exclude such tragic plots, when the artist and the Creator are in contact with money, estimates." This condescending paternalism, among other things, means that the ministry seems to be going to not shoot extra bureaucratic barriers, but to build new ones. As a result, the director will turn into hostage to the ministry who is afraid to make an extra movement and put an unnecessary signature, and the director in a beggar under the director. ”

She is echoed by theater expert Alena Karas : “ A meeting with Leviathan for most of us is just a seven -hour date with the beast, an transcendental (simply because the usual, cold) game of nerves, a parade of cynicism, lies and meanness. The authorities once again showed us our place, dumping in shit. And offering to rejoice and approve. We rejoice, of course, that I did not have a chance to see how our comrades are excreted in handcuffs. It would be completely unbearable. But right during the announcement of the sentence, they managed to give us a couple more signals. From Peskov we heard that they were watching us, hold, so to speak, on the fly. And from the Minister of Culture, who received the go -ahead from above, that they are developing a law that protects the creators from money! ”

Yes, literally “protect” so that the creators of this money do not see! After all, the claim of the Ministry of Culture of 129 million convicts will be paid in full. And fines in comparison with this amount already a penny. The theaters of Germany and other countries with which he collaborated-and, I hope, will continue to cooperate-Serebrennikov (although it is impossible to go on a conditional time ... Well, not for the first time, he directed several performances in the online mode).

On the eve of the verdict, the famous director Thomas Ostermaire tried to transfer the petition to support the Russian subscriptions accused with 56,000 signatures in Berlin, but the embassy was not opened. These signatures are collected not only in Germany, but around the world. Among the signed by Kate Blanchett, Mark Ravenhill, David Harrowuer, Lars von Trier, Elfrid Elinek and many, many others. Our universal Gandalf, British actor Ian McCellen published a post on Twitter, where he briefly spoke about the situation and put a photo of his letter addressed to Kirill Serebrennikov.

In Russia, on the eve of the last (before the verdict) a court hearing on the initiative of the Khudruk of the Voronezh Chamber Theater and the director of the International Platonic Festival Mikhail Bychkov, almost five thousand signatures were collected in a day with an appeal to the Minister of Culture: call the lawsuit. The top-two of the names of the signatories-directors, theater studies, playwrights, sceneders, actors-led by Natalia Solzhenitsyn, can be seen on the website of the magazine "Theater". It did not help. The lawsuit was not withdrawn.

The voices of human rights activists also sound. “ The condemnation of Serebrennikov is an insult to justice ... The proceedings on this clearly fabricated case showed how fragile in Russia the right of dissenters to a fair court,” said Carles Torner , executive director of the International Pen-Center. And here is the statement of Pan-Moscow and the Association “Free Word” : “ Theatrical business has ended. The verdict is much softer than expected, but still the indictment. The testimony of the Maslyaeva accountant, who had already had a criminal record for theft, and a second examination, which was openly adjusted to the conclusions of the investigation, outweighed everything:

- And the almost unanimous certificate of experts that there was no theft, although there was poor control over accounting;

- and the testimony of the former Minister of Culture Avdeev;

- And the lies of the prosecutors who declared the performances shown to the public, the viewers, the jury “ Golden Mask” declared non -existent.

Yes, the deadlines are conditional; We cannot but rejoice for our colleagues who will remain in the wild. But honest people were equated with criminals. The nerves were exhausted, they took away several years of life, someone was blown up by health. And that’s all - only in order to convince the layman: all these “alternative artists”, who are not according to the laws of the ruling clan, but according to the laws of free art, just ordinary thieves, at best helpless managers.

We declare: the theatrical business was registered, politically motivated. His goal was to intimidate, reminding the cultural community about that we have no precedent law, but there is unprecedented lawlessness. And that no one can feel safe if the only true course should not only be in politics, but also in art. The only answer to this “ Message of Fear” should be a new “message of freedom”. Culture does not need a pointer. And Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexey Malobrodsky, Yuri Itin, Sofya Apfelbaum should be fully justified. ”

In conclusion, another parable from Yana Tumina.

The famous cook bought food, prepared a great dinner. Everyone ate, everyone is full, everyone is happy. Then one handle wiped, Vinco finished and said: how much did you spend?

The cook is frivolous: he took the best, did not look at the price. Here is a check for wine, but I took vegetables in the market, they don’t give a check there ...

The universal excitement of the well -fed: how so? You feed, but you don’t know how much you pay? Here is parsley, here is dill - where did you get it, why in the market, without a commodity check and printing?

The cook was stuck: there was no in the store, I went and bought it quickly on the market. My work is not only tasty, but also to feed in time.

The guest scratched the well -fed belly, and he says: and my work is to punish you, so that he knew where how much. We give you money.

Another interested parties came. They look: all the plates are empty, there is no food. Where?!!

Cook: So they still ate! When delicious, they eat to the last crumbs.

Dunners: uh, cunning! And the check lost, and there is no food ... Thief!

The cook did not lose his temper, did not yell the guests: “Go to the toilet, leave everything you ate there. Check your weight before and after! "

No, he could not. Yes, and the point?

Since then, he stopped cooking ... And the food in those parts became tasteless.

Photo by Natalia Demina