Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov specified the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that director Kirill Serebrennikov had been allocated a billion rubles from his budget for his projects. On this Tuesday, September 5, the correspondent of "Tapes. RU". "The President spoke about the aggregate amount of support and funding that in one form or another in recent years were received by Serebrennikov or projects in which he took part. Through the Ministry of Culture, the federal authority, and along the lines of Moscow, namely the Department of Culture, "explained Peskov. According to the press secretary of the president, it is a question of the total amount allocated to the director over the last four to five years. The figure of a billion rubles Putin said earlier at a press conference.

The head of state said that the artistic director of the Gogol Center received "300 million from the government, and 700 million from the Moscow government". The Russian president also called the authorities' only question to Serebrennikov: compliance with the law in the use of budget money. He explained that the house arrest of the director does not confirm his guilt. August 23 Khudruk "Gogol Center" was placed under house arrest until October 19. He was charged with organizing the theft of budget funds for at least 68 million rubles.

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