to Challenge the verdict of the Meshchansky district court of Moscow Director Kirill Serebrennikov will not. Serebrennikov very tired from courts after convicted of depression, said the Director’s lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov.
“After the trial it became obvious that the guilt of all stakeholders, and the state has not suffered any damage”, — quotes the words of Dmitry Kharitonov TASS.
Kirill Serebrennikov, was sentenced to three years probation and a fine of 800 thousand rubles. Earlier, the Director promised to challenge the verdict of the court.
However, in the Meshchansky court of Moscow the sentence of June 26, was admitted appeals against the judgement to the defendants in the so-called “business “Seventh Studio”. In this case the defendants were accused of fraud and theft by deception of an organized group in especially large size under part 4 of article 159 of the Russian Criminal code. The sentence has been appealed against convicted ex-Director of “Gogol-center” and a former chief producer of Autonomous non-commercial organization (ANO) “the Seventh Studio” Alex Malopolski, as well as the former Director of the Yaroslavl theatre named after F. G. Volkov Yuriy Itin.
Malopolski was conditionally sentenced to two years and fined 300 thousand rubles, and Itin received three years conditionally with the penalty in 200 thousand rubles. Slobodskom and Itino court banned two or three years to occupy the associated administrative-economic and organizational-administrative powers in the state institutions of culture, respectively.
in addition to fines, the court sought to Serebrennikov, Malopolska and itina 129 million rubles at the suit of the Ministry of culture as compensation for the caused damage. To a fine of 100 thousand rubles for negligence, the court sentenced the former head of the Department of state support of art and folk creativity Ministry of culture of Russia, Director of the Russian academic youth theatre (RAMT) Sofia Apfelbaum. The court freed her from the penalty of the lapse of time the toilet water.acenia to justice. The court considered that she accepted without proper verification and control reports and documents, “the Seventh Studio” on conducting performances at the Ministerial grant for development and promotion of contemporary art “Platform” in 2011-2014. The Ministry of culture considered that of 216,5 million rubles 129 million of the grant was obtained by deception.
