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| Director Berkovich, convicted of justifying terrorism, sent to prison | |
| 2025-02-05 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Director Evgenia Berkovich (included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring), who received 5 years and 7 months of imprisonment for justifying terrorism during the production of the play "Finist the Bright Falcon"has been sent to a penal colony. “It just became known that today Zhenya Berkovich is being sent to a penal colony,” the convict’s support group said on its Telegram channel. It is noted that it is not yet known to which colony the director was sent. As reported by Regnum News Agency, on December 25, 2024, the military appellate court mitigated the sentences of Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk (included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring) in the case of justifying terrorism. The final sentence for the playwright is 5 years and 10 months in prison. In July, the Second Western District Military Court of Moscow found Berkovich and Petriychuk guilty of publicly justifying terrorism. They were then sentenced to six years in prison in a general regime penal colony; the convicted were also banned from administering Internet resources for three years. A criminal case was opened against Berkovich and Petriychuk after they staged the play "Finist the Bright Falcon". In the play, the women met representatives of radical Islam through social networks. After a video of the reading of the work was published online in May 2023, the director and playwright were detained, as investigators believed that the play contained signs of justification of terrorism. The convicted persons themselves do not admit their guilt. During the examination, it was established that the play "Finist the Bright Falcon" glorifies militants of the ISIS group (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and promotes the ideology of radical feminism.
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