Outside a courtroom here in the Russian capital, dozens of people crowded along a narrow corridor, some wearing T-shirts calling for those on trial to be freed, others clad in hipster and designer outfits. In many ways, the scene at the Meshansky District Court of Moscow was much the same as when human-rights activists or opposition politicians have gone before a judge, facing an almost certain conviction for having challenged the authority of President Vladimir Putin.
The Atlantic: A theatrical Moscow trial draws the ire of Russia’s cultural elite
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 August 23, 2017.
