How Putin punishes an operatic victim
mainDetails have emerged of the house arrest conditions under which Kirill Serebrennikov has lived for the past year while a Moscow court ‘investigates’ trumped-up fraud charges against the outspoken Putin critic.
The opera director, 48, is allowed no contact with the outside world. He may only speak to his father and his lawyer and has no access to the internet. He is confined to a small apartment without a balcony in the centre of Moscow and is permitted to take a supervised walk for two hours a day.
His lawyer says: ‘The restrictions of his freedom are very stressful for Kirill. He works around the clock.’
What a pity. Eventually Putin will be out and Serebennikov will be rehabilitated but by that time he might be a pretty broken man.