Serebrennikov case: Moscow arrests a second theatre boss

Serebrennikov case: Moscow arrests a second theatre boss

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norman lebrecht

October 31, 2017

The director of Moscow’s Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT), Sofia Apfelbaum, has been arrested in connected with the so-called embezzlement charges brought against the international opera director, Kirill Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest.

The police claims that Investigators claim Apfelbaum helped Serebrennikov’s group obtain 214 million rubles ($3.7 million) in state funding by deception.

Serebrennikov is an outspoken critic of the Putin regime. Apfelbaum’s views are unknown.

photo:Tass

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