
The Weekend Intelligence: The trial of Yevgenia Berkovich
From Economist Podcasts
Published 10/11/2025

From Economist Podcasts
Published 10/11/2025
In May 2024, Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petrichuk, the director and writer of an experimental play, became the first Russian artists since Soviet times to be put on trial for the content of their work. It was a show trial. Like all show trials its outcome was preordained. But when professional…