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epa06183061 Russian film and stage director Kirill Serebrennikov (C) attends an appeal hearing at the Moscow city court, in Moscow, Russia, 04 September 2017. The court had put Kirill Serebrennikov under house arrest, after the artistic director of Moscow's avant-garde theater 'The Gogol Center', was arrested on charges of organizing the embezzlement of at least 68 million rubles (over 1.15 million US dollars or 977,151 euro at current rate) of state funds allocated between 2011 and 2014 for his theatrical project Platforma. Kirill Serebrennikov was detained 22 August 2017 in St. Petersburg where he was filming a new movie. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV