Russian officials and pro-war activists have slammed a star-studded almost naked party hosted by media personality Anastasia Ivleeva for going against the countrys conservative values.Footage from the party at Mutabor, a popular Moscow nightclub, on Wednesday showed scantily clad pop stars Filipp Kirkorov, Lolita and Dima Bilan, as well as TV host and 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, among others.Yekaterina Mizulina, the head of the Free Internet League, a Kremlin-aligned pressure group advocating stricter rules on what can be said and done online, called for a boycott of the attendees.Such hangouts are a shot in the foot of the entire policy pursued by the state, Mizulinawrote on the Telegram messaging app Thursday.
[The partygoers] live in a different world than the rest of the country.These people should be boycotted at the state level, she said.State Duma lawmaker Dmitry Gusevcalled onstate broadcasters to cut those who attended Ivleevas almost naked party from their pre-recorded New Years Eve shows.If their performances are impossible to delete, alter their images and voices, Gusev wrote in a letter shared by the Telegram news channel Baza.His colleague Maria Butina, who served a short prison stint in the United States for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, went further,urging police to investigate whether the party violated Russias gay propaganda law and President Vladimir Putins 2022 decree on traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.Nina Ostanina, who heads the Dumas committee on family protection,issued a similar call for the Prosecutor Generals Office to prosecute the attendees for what she described as a feast during the plague regardless of their [celebrity] status.Police raided Mutabor on the second day of Ivleevas almost naked party that was open to the public.
Bazareported the event was allowed to proceed an hour later than scheduled and noted that guests were way more dressed than the previous day.Ivleeva herselfmocked the criticisms, saying with sarcasm that she loves it when this country, this world is not accepting of each other.We look to the beautiful, slender Western models and say Gosh, theyre so beautiful, theyre so cool.
When our beautiful and fit artists come out, everyones like: F*ck, how can they do that? Pop music has gone downhill, Ivleeva said.On Friday, a Moscow court jailedYekaterinburg rapper Nikolai Vasilyev, who performs under the name VACO, for 15 days on charges of petty hooliganism and fined him 200,000 rubles ($2,100) for gay propaganda.He was seen at the party wearing only sneakers and a sock covering his genitalia.F*ck it Ill work out [and] read some books haha peace to all, Vasilyev wrote on his Telegram channel, confirming the verdict.Later on Friday, Vasilyev appeared in a video published by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency apologizing for his alleged support of the LGBT community.I dont support the LGBT community in any way.
I didnt intend to promote any propaganda.
I condemn supporters of the LGBT movement, Vasilyev said.RIA Novosti also released another version of his apology in which Vasilyev added that he apologized for offending the feelings of many people during such a difficult time for our country.