Among the guests of the “almost naked” themed party, there was also President Vladimir Putin’s favorite singer, the king of Russian pop Philipp Kirkorov. Like all the other VIPs caught at the party organized by TV presenter and influencer Anastasia IvleevaKirkorov attempted to apologize for his mistake and thus protect his career in Russia, «the only country where I exist as an artist and citizen».
In Russia at war, all that is talked about is the party organized in a club in Moscow. The court in the Russian capital imposed a fine of one hundred thousand rubles, around 1,100 dollars, on Ivleeva – who has already apologized twice on her highly followed social media channels, asking for “another chance for the Russian people” – as organizer of the event. “against public order and morality”.
Her to make up for it he added that he will give all the proceeds from the evening to charity, but it probably won’t be enough: in another Russian court more than twenty people have filed a billion-ruble class action lawsuit for “moral damages.” If they win, the money will go to Russian fighters in Ukraine. In addition to the fine, presenter Ivleeva was removed from the advertising campaign of the mobile telephone company MTS and her company is subjected to an extraordinary tax audit by the Russian authorities.
After the party, held on December 20 at the Mutabor nightclub, a video circulated on social media where famous Russian celebrities celebrated dressed, or rather undressed, in underwear and lingerie. All the guests identified were punished, some with the cancellation of concerts and hosted on TV, some with sponsorship contracts. Some have been removed from Channel One’s glitzy pre-recorded New Year’s Eve programme. Singer Lolita Milyavskaya she has already said that her concerts will be canceled and she will be “excluded from television”. Things went worse rapper Nikolai Vasiliev, aka Vaciowho showed himself on social media wearing only his shoes and a strategically placed sock: fifteen days in prison and a 200 ruble fine.
Also the former Eurovision singer Dima Bilan and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak apologized. And the Kremlin? At least formally he distanced himself from the protests and the measures taken to keep Russian VIPs’ desire to celebrate in times of war at bay. “Let you and I be the only ones in the country not to discuss this topic,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov cut the journalists short.