Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were sentenced. Reportage Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Svetlana Petriychuk and Zhenya Berkovich in court In the Second Western District Military Court, the director was announced to the director Berkovich and the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, who were accused of justifying terrorism for the play “Finist Yasny Falcon”.

Following his visits to Kiev and Moscow, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a letter to the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the heads of EU countries, as revealed by the Current Time investigative project Sistema and European Pravda . The letter is dated July 5. Journalists received it from one of the European officials. The authenticity of the letter, as Sistema writes, was confirmed by two more EU officials.

The UN Security Council has scheduled a meeting for the morning of July 9 in connection with the Russian attack on Kiev, Reuters reports , citing diplomats. The meeting was requested by the United States, Great Britain, France, Slovenia and Ecuador. The UK's permanent representative to the UN, Barbara Woodward, wrote that "we condemn Russia's cowardly attack" on the hospital in Kiev.

Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv after the Russian missile strike on July 8 Over the next several days, all donations to Let’s Help (a fundraiser cofounded by Meduza to support Ukrainian civilians who have suffered from Russia’s war) will go towards supporting Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital.

The Roman Viktyuk Theatre, headed by director Konstantin Bogomolov, changed its name to the Melnikov Theatre - Stage in early June, the theatre’s Telegram channel reported .

Director Kirill Serebrennikov commented on the verdict of the 2nd Western District Military Court, which sentenced director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in prison in the case of “justifying terrorism.” Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were given 6 years in prison. Six years of real imprisonment. For nothing! Without any guilt! On the same day, Russian missiles also mercilessly destroyed a children's hospital in Kyiv. I am asked for comments.

The first reactions to the sentence to the wife Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Svetlana Petriychuk and Zhenya Berkovich in court. July 8, 2024 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.

What the Kremlin’s new defense pact with North Korea means for the Russian army fighting in Ukraine KCNA VIA KNS / AFP / Scanpix / LETA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presents the Kim Il Sung Medal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Pyongyang, North Korea. June 19, 2024. On June 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a strategic partnership agreement.

A Moscow court sentenced theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in prison each on charges of “justifying terrorism” on Monday, granting the penalty requested by prosecutors. The charges against the two artists stem from Berkovich’s award-winning production of Petriychuk’s play “Finist the Bright Falcon,” which is based on the experiences of hundreds of Russian women who moved to Syria to join ISIS after being recruited online.

Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were given six years of colony. We talked with those who remember how directors and playwrights were in the same way in the Soviet years Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk in the Zamoskvoretsky court. April 8, 2024 Today, the Second Western District Military Court sentenced the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in a general regime colony.

Judge Yuri Massin of the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in prison in the case of "justification of terrorism" (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to Meduza by a listener in the courtroom. The defendants will serve their sentences in a general regime penal colony. They were also banned from administering websites for three years.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg has sent Ural human rights activist Alexei Sokolov to pretrial detention until September 1 in a criminal case on the repeated display of the Facebook logo (Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code), Itʼs My City reports . The case against Sokolov was opened on July 5. According to the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper, the reason was publications in the Telegram channel "Human Rights Defenders of the Urals", associated with Sokolov.

That's how it was Remon Haazen / Getty images residents of Paris at the statue of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic, celebrate the victory of the "New Popular Front". July 7, 2024 Back in early July, after the first round of elections to the French lower house of parliament, the extreme right “national association” had every chance to win the absolute majority.

Volodymyr Zelensky promised that Ukraine would respond to the Russian shelling of Kiev, which, among other things, damaged the building of the Okhmatdet children's hospital. According to the latest data, 22 people were killed and 72 were injured during the Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital on July 8. In total, 33 people were killed and 140 were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russian missile strikes in one day. "A strike on a hospital where seriously ill children were being treated.

The "Democratic Community of Russian-Speakers in Finland" (Venajan Demokratian Puolesta) has been included in the register of "undesirable organizations" maintained by the Prosecutor General's Office, OVD-Info noted . The "Democratic Community of Russian-Speakers in Finland" unites activists who organize actions in support of Russian political prisoners, participate in political projects and hold anti-war events.