Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk for two months. They are charged in a criminal case to justify terrorism, initiated because of the performance “Finist Yasny Sokol”. The production, which tells about the recruitment of gullible Russian women by terrorists through dating sites, received two Golden Mask awards, was successfully staged even in the institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and dozens of celebrities vouched for its authors in court, including Oleg Menshikov and Konstantin Raikin. But the “destructological examination” featured in the case, according to the defendants’ lawyers, found in the production the glorification of the banned ISIS, the ideology of radical feminism and “the fight against the androcentric social structure of Russia.”
TFR enters the stage // “Finist Yasnoy Sokol” is associated with the justification of terrorism
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