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Acclaimed Russian director convicted but not sent to prison

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MOSCOW – A Moscow judge convicted an acclaimed Russian theater director of embezzling state funds and imposed a three-year suspended sentence Friday in a case widely seen as politically motivated.

Kirill Serebrennikov, 50, arguably Russia’s best-known theater and film director, and his associates were found guilty of fraud and embezzling 129 million rubles (over $1.8 million) of state funding for a theater project.

The judge, saying that “reformation is possible without a real (prison) term," gave Serebrennikov and two other defendants suspended sentences and ordered them to repay the embezzled funds.

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