2024-05-21 07:17:09
The arrest of director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petrychuk final Might shook the Russian creative circles, which have already been below stress from the Kremlin since 2022, when Russia repeatedly invaded Ukraine.
Berkovich and Petrijchuk are accused of justifying terrorism within the 2021 play about Russian ladies who married fighters of the terrorist group “Islamic State” in Syria and are tried for terrorism after returning to Russia. The play was awarded with two prestigious “Golden Masks” awards.
Berkovic, 39, has additionally written poems criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and her supporters consider she could also be being punished for these poems.
Berkovic advised the courtroom that she staged the play to forestall terrorism. She has repeatedly requested the courtroom to position her below home arrest to supply take care of her adopted teenage daughters, who’re disabled.
Petrijchuk stated she has a youthful sister and aged mother and father who rely upon her. “There isn’t a excuse for terrorism within the present,” she harassed.
The present “Finist jasnij sokol” was staged in a documentary fashion, telling the story of Russian ladies who’re recruited to affix the “Islamic State” on the Web.
2024-05-21 07:17:09