The former director of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater Mammadali Agayev has been released from custody in Russia. This is reported by Kommersant, citing sources.
Earlier, the Moscow Prosecutor General's Office charged him with fraud on an especially large scale. Agaev, according to the agency, on the basis of fictitious reports on the work performed, together with accomplices, stole about 20 million rubles.
Earlier it became known that in Baku the head of the editorial office of Sputnik Azerbaijan Igor Kartavykh changed the measure of restraint to house arrest.
On June 30, the Azerbaijani authorities detained seven people at the Sputnik Azerbaijan agency. Igor Kartavykh and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov were arrested for four months.

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