Contents tagged with Lavrenchuk

  • Italy detains prominent Ukrainian theater director at Russia’s request

    39-year-old Ukrainian theater director Yevgeny Lavrenchuk was taken into custody In Italy at the request of the Russian authorities for his extradition. Lavrenchuk is accused in Russia of fraud (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), reports TASS.

    Lavrenchuk is the chief director of the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. The Tagansky District Court of Moscow arrested him in absentia in July 2020.

    According to the press secretary of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign …