Berkovich herself participated in the meeting via video link, support her in the broadcast room came more than 50 people.

Lawyers asked to choose any measure of restraint, except for the pre-trial detention center, the director herself said that she was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, which could not finance terrorism. Berkovich was arrested in early May.

Together with playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, she is charged under an article on justifying terrorism in the production Finist the Clear Falcon, which tells about women who decide to marry representatives of radical Islam. The performance won prizes “Golden Mask”.

The defense insists that the case is based on the expertise of an educational institution (instead of an expert center), and pseudoscience lies at the heart of the “destructive” forensic examination.