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Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov waits for the start of his hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 18, 2018. A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled to extend the detention of Kirill Serebrennikov until Aug. 22. He has been under house arrest since August 2017, and is awaiting trial on charges of embezzling 133 million rubles (about $2 million) of state funding for a theater project. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)