MOSCOW, January 5. TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak said in her Telegram channel that she lost approximately 15 million rubles due to blogger Anastasia Ivleeva’s participation in a scandalous party.
““I lost about 15 million rubles on the cancellation of events,” Sobchak wrote. “But money is not the main thing. The lessons that we learn from certain situations are important. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone falls.”
The journalist added that it is also important to “show humanity and not poison those who have fallen.”
Ivleeva’s party took place in the capital’s club “Mutabor” on December 20 and 21 and was called “naked” because of the dress code “almost without clothes.”
On the first day of the New Year's holiday, many celebrities came, including Ksenia Sobchak, Philip Kirkorov, Lolita Milyavskaya, Dima Bilan, Olga Orlova, Glucose, Anna Asti and others.
Despite the fact that the party had the status of a “closed event,” the organizer and guests actively posted photos on social networks, which angered the public.
Representatives of the “Call of the People” movement wrote a complaint to the Prosecutor General’s Office. In their opinion, it is unacceptable to have fun when “Russia is leading the Northeast Military District and stands for traditional values.”
State Duma Deputy Maria Butina asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Culture to check the star party for LGBT* propaganda.
Afterwards they began to cancel them en masse in Russia concerts of participants of the “naked ball”, as well as exclude them from New Year’s television programs. For example, Philip Kirkorov and Anna Asti were “cut out” from the musical comedy “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything!” on TNT. They were replaced at the last moment by other artists.
Almost all the star participants of the “naked party” recorded and posted video messages of apology on their pages on social networks, including Anastasia Ivleeva (she did this twice).
* The movement is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.