The controversy comes to Russia after it was discovered that some well-known faces in the country had celebrated a peculiar party in which the dress code was characterized precisely by wearing hardly anything.
The most conservative sectors of the country have already raised their voices against figures such as the presenter Nastya Ivleeva or the politician Ksenia Sochak, “goddaughter” of Vladimir Putin and who aspired to the presidential elections in 2018, for having attended the celebration scantily clad, which was scheduled to last several days, but which the police interrupted on its second day.
“This type of meeting is like taking a shot at the politics pursued by the state,” wrote the politician sympathetic to the Kremlin regime Yekaterina Mizulina on the social network Telegram, even calling for a boycott of all those famous people who attended the party, organized by Ivleeva. “If their actions are impossible to eliminate, let the images be altered,” asked Soviet soldier and deputy Dimitri Gúsev on the social network.
Others, for their part, asked the government and the police to go further and investigate all those involved, because after seeing the videos and images spread on social networks, they were convinced that they could have “violated the anti-gay propaganda laws” that Vladimir Putin established it in 2022 to preserve “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
Criticism has been especially harsh on Sobchak, one of the best-known media figures in Russia not only as a television presenter, but also as a politician, after running for president in 2018. The presenter, 41, is the daughter of one of the first political mentors of the current Russian president, Anatoly A. Sobchak (former mayor of Saint Petersburg) and has special affection for him, considering herself his “goddaughter” for years. Sobchak’s mother is also a member of the Russian Parliament.
Reality presenter, journalist and a woman who considers herself a “liberal politician”, she is loved and hated in equal parts in the country. Even more so since, at the end of summer, she proclaimed that it was “useless” to resist Putin’s decisions regarding the invasion of Ukraine. “Putin has made a certain and clear decision. There comes a time when you have to accept it and you can’t do anything.”
Anastasia Ivleeva, organizer of the party, did not hesitate to mock what happened on social networks, sarcastically pointing out that she “loved it” when “this country, this world, does not accept each other.”
