The Jewish Congress asks to check for the anti -Semitism of the statement "expert" in the case of Evgenia Berkovich

The Russian Jewish Congress turned to the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin with a request to verify the statements of the geographer Roman Silantyev, who calls himself a religious renewal for anti -Semitism. After his examination, the director Yevgeny Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk opened a criminal case on the justification of terrorism.

RBC reports that the outrage of the Congress caused a commentary to Silantyev, dedicated to his examination of the performance, which is due to which Berkovich is judged. The creator of the pseudoscience entitled "Destructology", for example, claims that Jews actively stand for the Wahhabis, "such a feeling that in spite of the Russians."

The performance of Evgenia Berkovich “Finist Yasny Sokol” is a project of the Independent Theater “Soso’s daughter”, which talks about women who succumbed to propaganda and decide “virtually marrying radical Islam” and leave for Syria. The text of the play by Svetlana Petriychuk is based on the real stories of Russian women who were recruited through social networks. According to the plot, they went to the territory controlled by the terrorists to become the wives of the militants. According to some reports , thus in Syria there were about seven thousand Russians.

The performance, the premiere of which was held in 2019, in 2022 received two Golden Mask nominations and other theatrical awards.

Congress conducted an examination of the statements of Roman Silantyev, for which he attracted the doctor of philological sciences Mikhail Dymarsky. He confirmed that the comment contains signs of anti -Semitism.

The human rights project "First Department", which reported the participation of Silantyev’s involvement in the case of Berkovich and Petriychuk, indicated that in 2005 the Council of Mufties of Russia - for distorting the facts about Islam filed an official complaint.

• In early May, director Yevgeny Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk was detained and sent to a pre -trial detention center. The criminal case against them was opened because of the play "Finist Yasny Falcon", which Petriychuk wrote and set by Berkovich.
• In support of Berkovich and Petriychuk, who are threatened by long terms of imprisonment, dozens of cultural figures, human rights activists and public figures performed. The guarantee for Berkovich, which was provided to the court, was signed by Oleg Menshikov, Veniamin Smekhov, Ksenia Sobchak, Nyuta Federmeser, Alexander Lungin, Elena Panfilova, Maxim Vitorgan, Arina Borodina, Konstantin Raikin and others.
• A number of acquaintances Berkovich suggest that persecution may be associated with her active anti -war position. After the start of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Berkovich publicly opposed the war.