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(8 Apr 2019) COURT FREES ACCLAIMED RUSSIAN DIRECTOR FROM HOUSE ARREST
Acclaimed Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov was freed from house arrest Monday, a verdict that follows longtime calls for his release from prominent cultural figures worldwide.
The Moscow City Court overturned a district court's decision to extend his house arrest, and ordered him freed.
He was told not to leave the Russian capital pending completion of his trial.
Two of his associates were also freed from house arrest, including another theatre director, Sophia Apfelbaum.
Serebrennikov has been under house arrest for nearly 20 months on charges of embezzling 133 million rubles (2 million US dollars) of state funding for a theater project.
He has rejected the accusations as absurd, and many in Russia saw the charges as punishment for his anti-establishment views.

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