Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were arrested in May 2023, despite their play no longer being staged. Their trial is ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a ...
A Russian court has opened the trial of a theatre director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play. The case is the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia ...
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A theatre director and a playwright have appeared in court accused of justifying terrorism with a play they first staged in Moscow back in 2020. The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana ...
TALLINN, Estonia — A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on ...
Seven years after the murder, David Pagniano decided to plead guilty before his trial was scheduled to start and allowed a judge to determine his sentence without a plea agreement. Pagniano, 62, also ...