Theater director and poet Zhenya Berkovich was detained for allegedly “justifying terrorism” in her play “Finist, the Brave Falcon. She was arrested along with Svetlana Petriychuk on May 4, 2023 and held in extended pre-trial detention. The play was about women who meet jihadists on the internet to go to Syria, for which the production won the prestigious Russian Golden Mask theater award.
