Kirill Serebrennikov, a prominent Moscow theater figure who has protested against the government, has been detained on suspicion of fraud, Russian officials say.
The Investigative Committee said on August 22 that Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center theater and founder of a dramatic collective called Seventh Studio, was suspected of organizing the embezzlement of 68 million rubles ($1.1 million) allocated in 2011-14 for a project.
