Outside the doors to the Moscow courthouse, the crowd of supporters, and reporters, swelled into the hundreds. Inside, one of Russia’s most famous theater directors was on trial for embezzlement. Just meters away, on a street corner, a young woman stood with a small sign: “Return our artist to us.”
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Russia's theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, charged with fraud, looks out from a defendants' cage during a hearing at Moscow's Basmanny district court on Aug. 23.
