The Russian Jewish Congress appealed to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to check the expert on the case of film director Evgenia Berkovich, religious scholar Roman Silantyev, for inciting ethnic hatred. reported on the organization’s website.
According to Congress, Silantiev’s comment on Berkovich’s criticism of Finist the Bright Falcon “contains a lot of anti-Semitic bias.” The organization reported that this conclusion was confirmed by a linguistic examination of the religious scholar’s statements conducted by Doctor of Philology Mikhail Dymarsky.
“Based on this linguistic expertise, historical experience and common sense, the Russian Jewish Congress believes that in the interview of Roman Silantiev it publishes everyday prejudices that incite ethnic hatred. The events of the 1930s and 1940s showed how such rhetoric ended,” the congressional message said.
They also stressed that Silantiev’s words “constitute a negative attitude towards Jews in society” and that his expertise on the Berkovich case “cannot be objective”. Also, Congress said the case in the Berkovich case “shows signs of anti-Semitism.”
Director Evgenia Berkovich on May 5 arrested for two months in a criminal case to justify terrorism. The lawsuit was also filed because of the play “Finist Yasny Sokol”, adapted from the play by playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. arrested.
The protagonists of the work are Russian women who decided to marry radical Islamists virtually and came to them in Syria. The performance based on the game in 2022 received two Golden Masks.