The Russian theatre director and feminist Evgenia Berkovich and the playwright Svetlana Petriichuk have each been sentenced to six years in a penal colony by a court in Moscow for “public justification of terrorism” over the content of a play. The reason for the proceedings was the staging of Petriichuk’s play “Finist – The Brave Falcon,” which premiered almost three years ago. The play tells the story of a Russian woman who meets a member of a radical Islamist sect online and eventually decides to marry him and follow him abroad. The court sentence handed down on Monday also forbids both wome…