“The concrete slab is not asked why it falls on the heads. But while a person is alive, there is hope "

The first reactions to the sentence to the wife Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk

The court sentenced the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to the six years of the colony in the case of “justification of terrorism” due to the play “Finist Yasny Falcon”, which received the “Golden Mask”. The investigation in the case took more than a year. During this time, Berkovich’s grandmother - writer and human rights activist Nina Katerli died. Berkovich has two adopted daughters of 17 and 19 years old, whom she took from the orphanage. At the trials of the court, she said that together with the girls for four years she worked on “so that they would not shout at night and sobbed that my mother would disappear, that her mother would be imprisoned,” and her stay in the pre -trial detention center “can turn into a catastrophe for them”. The prison term is six years. What can you say about this?

Maria Berkovich

Sister Zhenya Berkovich

6 years. The grandmother does not know yet, he will find out tomorrow. What can you say? "For what?" And for what for what? The concrete plate is not asked why it falls on the heads. Today in court (that is, of course, much earlier), people made the decision, but it is just as pointless to contact them.

Zhenya and Light are alive, this is the main thing. While a person is alive, there is hope. Svetina family I wish the strength and courage. I hug all of my own. Thank you very much for your support and help.

Kirill Serebrennikov

director

Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were given 6 years in Colony. Six years of real term. No! Without any fault! On the same day, Russian missiles also mercilessly destroyed the children's hospital in Kyiv. They ask for comments from me. I have nothing new to say, except for one thing: the Russian state is a cannibal, the Russian authorities are criminal, and those who he/it serve - also criminals and cannibals. When this is a criminal, cannibalistic evil, it is important that they are all - criminals, cannibals - be called name and punished. I am sure that Sveta and Zhenya will not sit full time. They will come out earlier than these six years. And those bastards who torment and kill in our eyes will sit in their places. And in the war, and in this Russian "court". Retribution will overtake them, everyone. Everyone! In the meantime, only one thing can say about these cannibals: be they cursed! Nobody canceled the curse.

Dmitry Bykov

writer

Judge Yuri Massin. Purely for memory. And the names Berkovich and Petriychuk will now not forget all over the world. Like Sinyavsky and Daniel with the same terms. Now we know who the main and best writers of Russia.

Boris Akunin

writer

They still did this, gave six years to his wife Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk. According to the denunciation of some phantom “Nikita” ... For the performance, which received a “golden mask” ... Before our eyes, an episode was entered in history, which will demonstrate the entire insanity of the Putin era to future generations.

For the theater performance in Russia, a prison sentence is pronounced for the first time. It seems that this has not yet happened in world history. Even under Stalin, actors and playwrights were sentenced not for professional activities, but according to the 58th article. To plant a play and production, this is a directly new word in theatrical criticism.

The prosecutors, judges, scoundrels-whiskers, you ended up in history. And you will not be able to get out of it. This process will fall into textbooks.

Galina Yuzefovich

Literary observer

You know without me, but six years. Six years for the play. Six bitch. Of course, I know that people, directly or indirectly involved in this sentence, will burn in hell. But in the moment it does not help very much.

Katerina Gordeeva

Journalist

Just the judge of the Second Western District Military Court, Yuri Massin, sentenced the absolutely innocent director Zhenya Berkovich - to 6 years in the colony, screenwriter Svetlana Petriychuk - to 6 years in the colony.

So, having deprived the mother of the adopted girls of Zhenya and her granddaughters, a very elderly and very weak grandmother (the second died during the investigation), Russian justice celebrated the Day of Love and Family, about which they are trumpeted in all State.

Sam Treskunov

actor

Now it will be emotional. 6 years Berkovich. I remember that the only thing the Nazis could not calmly live in Latin America - this is the Simon Vizenthal and Mossad Foundation. It seems that this shameful court gave the case of life to everyone who has a heart. I would only figure it out with work, a bit to accumulate money - and from the deaf rage that overflows my heart, you can’t get anywhere - smelly, cowardly, shameful fuckers who left their names under this matter. You just can’t imagine how you helped my future work with today's sentence.

Dmitry Korzev

journalist

Berkovich and Petriychuk received six years in a colony for the play. Think about it just. Of course, every repressive business is a refined madness, but from this each of them does not stop shocking.

Nikolai Rybakov

Chairman of the Yabloko party

“In the country, people should not judge for how they believe, it is necessary to protrude through culture, through their work. art. And in fact, people were tried for what they fought with. This should not be in the country. The more people come to protect these girls, the sooner this time will change.

Dmitry Gudkov

politician

6 years Berkovich and Petriychuk are defiantly cannibal verdict, even without the standard small discount for Russian “justice” from that time, which requested the charges.

Demonstrative cannibalism in relation to two fragile innocent girls. For the first time since Stalin's times - frankly, undermined for a work of art. Which, shortly before the sentence, received the Gosprem “Golden Mask” - that is, in fact, recognition from the same system that now judges them. The main claim to them, however, is probably not a play about Russian girls and ISIS, but the piercing poems of Zhenya Berkovich about Ukraine. Svetlana Petriychuk, it turns out, sat in general “for the company” - Kafka is resting. Forces to them and their loved ones!

Ksenia Karpinskaya

Lawyer Zhenya Berkovich

And on the day of love and fidelity, the prosecutor received a bouquet of flowers. And completely calmly sent these girls to jail. And no one thought neither mercy, nor about justice, nor about anything else.

Of course, we do not have a way out, and we will appeal. But I believe that those people who are involved in this decision will live with this, and perhaps someday justice will triumph.

Do you know that Jordano Bruno persuaded to admit for seven years, and only after seven years they burned him? So, today at the hearing Svetlana said that she, too, would not give up her faith and in no way would admit what she did not do. The same thing said Eugene. She said that she would never see her grandmother again, because she would not live for 6 years at 90 years.

She may not see her adoptive children. We do not know what will happen to them tomorrow. And, probably, she will not be able to give birth to new children due to age. And all this was known to both the judge and the prosecutor. Well, at such a time we live.