"So far, we know from a lawyer that Zhenya has been detained as a suspect in a criminal case," she told RIA Novosti.
The agency's source in law enforcement agencies said that a criminal case was opened against Berkovich on the justification of terrorism. Officially, this information has not been confirmed.
The director's mother, Elena Efros, noted that her apartment in St. Petersburg was searched as part of the case initiated against her daughter. The woman said that the case was opened because of the play "Finist Clear Falcon".
The agency writes that Berkovich graduated from the workshop of Kirill Serebrennikov at the Moscow Art Theater School in 2013, she staged performances at the Moscow Art Theater named after A. P. Chekhov, "Gogol Center" and worked in the troupe "Seventh Studio".
At the same time, TASS writes that the Investigative Committee also detained playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. Her lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova confirmed the detention of her client.