The Meshchansky Court of Moscow has extended the house arrest of the Gogol Center’s artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov, who has been charged as part of the Studio Seven case, until July 3, an Interfax correspondent reported.
“The court finds that the state prosecutor’s request shall be granted and rules that defendant Serebrennikov’s house arrest shall be extended by three months until July 3, 2019,” Judge Irina Akkuratova said.
The court also gave the same extension to the house arrest of another two defendants in this case – Sofya Apfelbaum, the former head of the Russian Culture Ministry’s department of state support for art and crafts and director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, and ex-Studio Seven director general Yury Itin.
Another defendant – former Studio Seven general producer and former Gogol Center director Alexei Malobrodsky, who was in custody from June 2017 to May 2018 – is currently under travel restrictions.
