Former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin movement “Nashi” Kristina Potupchik and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov worked on the image of blogger Anastasia Ivleeva after the “naked” party. Journalist Yulia Taratuta spoke about this with reference to her own sources in her program on Dozhd.
According to Taratuta, the project to “return Ivleeva” was supervised by the head of the public projects department (POP) of the presidential administration, Sergei Novikov. The official and his subordinates monitor the statements of artists and are responsible for the “black lists.”
The journalist’s interlocutors said that Solovyov participated in the creation of the latest posts in Ivleeva’s telegram channel, in which she expressed support for Vladimir Putin. In addition, the propagandist advised her to “go into the shadows and not irritate people until passions subside and the authorities change their minds.”
In early May, Ivleeva gave an interview to blogger and restaurateur Andrei Tretyakov (Luka Ebkov), in which she said that she visited Mariupol, destroyed by the Russian army, and “stood on the contact line for about 15 minutes and listened to the war.” According to Yulia Taratuta, Tretyakov is the “creature Potupchik” who organized this interview.
At the end of December 2023, Ivleeva’s party was held at the Moscow club “Mutabor” with an almost naked dress code, which outraged pro-government activists. After this, the blogger recorded several videos of apology. At the same time, anti-war posts disappeared from her social networks for several days, the BBC Russian Service wrote.
In January, Ivleeva was fined 100 thousand rubles for organizing an event at the Mutabor club. After another four months, the blogger was given a new fine — 50 thousand rubles under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason for this was an Instagram post dated March 1, 2022.
In the publication, the blogger addressed the Russian leadership: “I urge you to make the second round of negotiations the end of hostilities, I urge you to reach an agreement, I urge you to achieve those compromises that will stop the loss of life. I urge you to stop. I say this, Nastya Ivleeva, a person of the World, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a patriot of my country.”
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