A Moscow court on Friday ruled that popular Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov is guilty of embezzlement charges, following a lengthy trial that Moscow's liberal arts scene says was politically motivated.
The 50-year-old and two co-defendants were charged with embezzling 129 million rubles (about 1.6 million, $1.8 million) out of 216 million rubles worth of Russian Culture Ministry funding for the Platforma arts project, which was founded and managed by Serebrennikov between 2009 and 2015.
