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Swiss director Milo Rau speaks to the media after a play performance of "Moscow Trials" in the Sakharov centre in Moscow.
Moscow -
A Swiss theatre director says Russian immigration officials barged into a Moscow theatre where he was re-enacting a play based on the trial of punk band Pussy Riot in order to check his documents.
Milo Rau said the officials interrupted the play on Sunday but the raid quickly petered out when it turned out his visa was in order. The warrant they used also had a wrong address on it, Rau said.
“It was more Kafka than Stalin,” Rau said on Monday
Rau was directing a three-day reenactment of trials against Russian artists, including Pussy Riot who staged an impromptu anti-Putin protest in Moscow's main cathedral in 2012.
Three band members were sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism,” and one of them was later released on appeal. - Sapa-AP
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