Russian TV presenter and influencer Anastasia Ivleeva has been fined by a Moscow court for arranging a risqué party at Moscow’s Mutabor nightclub, attended by well-known Russian celebrities dressed in underwear and lingerie – and, in one case, just a strategically placed sock and a pair of shoes.
Ivleeva had already apologised twice for hosting the party, the BBC reports, having ‘sparked a moral backlash in wartime Russia’.
Ivleeva was convicted of organising a mass presence that violated public order, and was fined $1 100.
Russian rapper Vacio, whose single-sock outfit led to his arrest, has since been handed a 15-day jail term for ‘disorderly conduct’. Otherwise known as Nikolai Vasiliev, he was found guilty of promoting ‘non-traditional sexual relations’ and handed a fine twice that of Ivleeva’s.
According to the BBC, another court has registered a billion-rouble class action lawsuit against Ivleeva for ‘moral damage’, signed by 22 people, who want her to hand the billion to a group that donates money to Russians fighting in Ukraine.