Ksenia Sobchak published a video with a public apology for participating in Anastasia Ivleeva’s “naked” party, which took place in the Moscow club “Mutabor”.
As Sobchak said, she attended Ivleeva’s event, since the blogger had previously organized successful parties. “But other people came to this event, and their sense of beauty did not always coincide with mine,” Sobchak clarified.
According to the presenter, showing the party “to the whole world” was inappropriate. “With all my love for provocation and shocking, I know very well: first, you should always carefully choose the time for them, now is not it; second, it was not always shocking, but in some places it was ridiculous bad taste,” she added. At the same time, Sobchak emphasized that the party was not planned as “a public story or a public statement.”
“The cancellation of the artists who participated there, as well as talk about “ideological sabotage” it is nonsense. Making statements out of idiotic photographs, turning participants in bullshit into criminals is vulgarity upon vulgarity. I can tell you for sure for myself, my friends, I definitely didn’t want to offend or offend anyone. If someone was offended by my appearance, I apologize for that,” Sobchak added. At the end of the video, she emphasized that she loves her country and does not want to cause “a feeling of hatred and anger.”
Today, a video with excuses for participating in Ivleeva’s “naked” party was published by musicians Dmitry Bilan and Philip Kirkorov. According to Bilan, for him participation in the event was “a window between his other works.” Kirkorov, in turn, commented on his visit to the party with the phrase “I walked into the wrong door.”
A day earlier, singer Lolita Milyavskaya also published a video in which she talked about her participation in the party. According to the artist, she took what was happening with irony, but later, because of attending the meeting, haters began asking to be removed from the air and New Year’s programs. Mash wrote that after the party they demanded that Kirkorov be deprived of the title of People's Artist of Russia.
A party called Almost Naked took place in Mutabor on December 20 and 21. On the first day of the event, photographs from it appeared on social networks, which outraged pro-government activists — they contacted the police and the prosecutor's office with denunciations. Those who complained to the authorities were outraged not only by the appearance of the party participants, but also by its “inappropriateness” due to the war in Ukraine. SHOT wrote that Russian military personnel at the front also asked to check the event.
As a result, Roskomnadzor reported that “signs of LGBT propaganda” were found in photos and videos from the party. Later, security forces detained rapper Vacio (Nikolai Vasiliev), who visited Mutabor wearing only sneakers and a Balenciaga sock on his penis. The court sentenced him to 15 days of arrest under the administrative article of petty hooliganism and a fine of 200 thousand rubles under the article on “LGBT propaganda.” The network also posted a video of the rapper’s apology, in which he says that he “condemns LGBT supporters.”
On December 24, Ivleeva published a video on social networks in which she made a public apology for the “naked” party. She promised to donate the proceeds from the event to charity. Later, as the BBC Russian Service noted, posts against the Russian invasion of Ukraine disappeared from Ivleeva’s Instagram.