Today, May 4, marks one year since Russian theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were arrested. The two women, thrown behind bars on bogus charges of publically “justifying terrorism” and spreading its propaganda over an award-winning play they staged together, are facing up to seven years in prison. Though the case against them was moved to trial in April, the first hearing has been pushed back to October at the earliest. Earlier this spring, Berkovich and Petriychuk were put on the government’s list of “terrorists and extremists,” blocking them from drawing a…
