MOSCOW, December 28 – A rapper who attended a celebrity party wearing only a sock to hide his modesty has been jailed for 15 days, sponsors of some of Russia’s best-known artists have broken their contracts and reportedly , President Vladimir Putin is not amused. .
An “almost naked” party at a Moscow nightclub, held at a time when Russia is embroiled in a war with Ukraine and authorities are pushing an increasingly conservative social agenda, has provoked an unusually swift and powerful reaction.
A video clip of Putin’s spokesman listening to an explanation from one of the stars who attended has been circulating online. Baza, a media outlet known for its contacts with the security services, reported that troops fighting in Ukraine were among the first to complain after seeing the footage and that photographs of the event reached Putin, who was unimpressed.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, on Wednesday asked journalists to forgive him for not publicly commenting on the growing scandal, saying: “Let you and I be the only ones in the country who are not discussing this issue.”
An “almost naked” Russian party led to a rapper being jailed for 15 days. Via REUTERS
Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said the event had “tainted” those who participated, but they now had the opportunity to work on themselves, according to news outlet Ura.ru.
The fierce reaction from authorities, pro-Kremlin lawmakers and bloggers, state media and Orthodox Church groups has been dominating headlines for days, crowding out stories about rising egg prices and allowing people vents his anger by attacking the elite of show business. instead.
The party, at Moscow’s Mutabor nightclub, was organized by blogger Anastasia (Nastya) Ivleeva and attended by well-known singers in their underwear or skimpy outfits who have been staples on state television entertainment programs for years.
Russian actress and blogger Anastasia Ivleeva hosted the party, AP
DOUBLE APOLOGY
Ivleeva, who has since become one of Russia’s most recognizable names, appears in a clip showing off an emerald-studded chain around her butt worth 23 million rubles ($251,000) at a time when some Russians are fighting to get ahead.
He has since released two public apology videos for the event that took place on December 20-21.
In the second tearful apology, released Wednesday, Ivleeva said she regretted her actions and deserved everything she received, but hoped she would be given “a second chance.”
Since then, his name has disappeared as one of the public faces of the major Russian mobile operator MTS, tax authorities have opened an investigation that carries a possible five-year prison sentence, and a Moscow court has accepted a lawsuit from a group of people demanding paid one billion rubles ($10.9 million) for “moral suffering.”
Russian blogger Anastasia (Nastya) Ivleeva poses for a photo with rapper GeeGun during an “almost naked” party at Mutabor nightclub in Moscow, Russia. Via REUTERS
If they are successful, they want the money to go to a state fund that supports Ukraine’s war veterans.
“Celebrating such events at a time when our boys are dying in the (Ukrainian) special military operation and many children are losing their parents is cynical,” said Yekaterina Mizulina, head of the Russian League for Safer Internet, a body founded with the support of the authorities.
“Our frontline soldiers are definitely not fighting for this.”
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Many of the party’s famous participants have recorded apologies, including journalist Ksenia Sobchak, whose late father, Anatoly, was once Putin’s friend and boss.
SOCIAL CONSERVATISM
The scandal comes as Putin, who is expected to handily win another six-year term in March elections, has doubled down on social conservatism, urging families to have eight or more children, and after Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that LGBT activists should be designated as “extremists.”
Nikolai Vasilyev, a rapper known as Vacio who attended wearing only a sock to cover his penis, was jailed by a Moscow court for 15 days and fined 200,000 rubles ($2,182) for propaganda of “non-traditional sexual relations.”
Other, more famous names have had concerts and lucrative broadcast slots on state television cancelled, contracts with sponsors revoked and, in at least one case, are said to be being cut from a new film.
The scandal has angered those who support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Standing outside the Bolshoi Theater on Thursday, Nadezhda, a Moscow resident, told Reuters she was outraged and thought those who participated should be punished and no longer appear on television.
“If you’re partying at least don’t film it,” he said. “In such a difficult time (for Russia), they should at least be ashamed. Are they not ashamed before those who fight for us?
Alexander, another Muscovite, said those who attended had not broken any laws and were free to do whatever they wanted at what was a private event.
But a woman who said her nephew had lost both legs in combat wrote in a post to the League for Safer Internet that the stars should pay for prosthetic legs for her relative and others to make amends.
“That would be a better apology,” the unidentified woman wrote.
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