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Theater director Zhenya Berkovich sits in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 5, 2023. Theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were detained on Thursday on the charge of justifying terrorism because of their play "Finist, the Brave Falcon." The play is about women who were lured into marriage by representatives of radical Islam, went to live with them in Syria and faced prosecution upon returning to Russia. Berkovich and Petriychuk have maintained their innocence. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Theater director Zhenya Berkovich sits in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 5, 2023. Theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were detained on Thursday on the charge of justifying terrorism because of their play "Finist, the Brave Falcon." The play is about women who were lured into marriage by representatives of radical Islam, went to live with them in Syria and faced prosecution upon returning to Russia. Berkovich and Petriychuk have maintained their innocence. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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