Screenwriter Pavel Tetersky has left Russia, his lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev announced on Telegram on August 12. The writer departed after being released from a special detention center on August 11.
On July 31, the Khimki City Court of the Moscow region sentenced Tetersky to 12 days of administrative arrest on charges of petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). Court materials stated that the screenwriter, while intoxicated, kicked garbage bins, leading to his detention.
Cherdzhiev claims the protocol was drawn up "on fabricated grounds." According to the lawyer, a day before the arrest, on July 30, unidentified security officials came to Tetersky's home and, "under the guise of inspecting the premises," conducted a search for several hours. They found nothing illegal.
Tetersky and his defense argue that during the search, officials tried to implicate the screenwriter in "terrorist activities." Afterward, security forces made the writer promise on camera not to commit crimes against Russia's security.
"I will not commit them, and I never did <...> I think the comrades just overdid it a bit and took the wrong person who was engaged in terrorist work, and [the one] who maybe said something wrong on the internet," Tetersky commented on the events.
Tetersky is known as the screenwriter of the series "Good Man," "Chelyuskin. The First," "Trotsky," "The Missing" and "Reservation." In the 1990s, he co-authored the novel "More Than Ben" with Sergei Sakin; in 2000, the book won the Debut Prize, and in 2007, a film of the same name was made based on it.