Almost all experts admitted that the current New Year’s “lights” on TV were…

Almost all experts admitted that the current New Year’s “lights” on TV were the most disastrous, and even on the main button, it’s just a nightmare. And Channel One has something to remember. At least the super successful “Songs about the main thing”. So successful that they decided to use the project in Boris Yeltsin’s election campaign. As follows from the “wiretaps” of that time, the situation led to a scandal involving Konstantin Ernst. In the first recording, an indignant Ernst quarrels with Badri Patarkatsishvili, who was managing ORT (Channel One) at the time on behalf of Berezovsky. Ernst says that Malashenko is “hanging up” on him to show a TV concert with Yeltsin’s participation, stylized as “Old songs about the main thing.” “Lisovsky told me that you, ORT, will film all this. Lisovsky has no money. It is not clear for what money. It’s going to be shit, we’re setting ourselves up. Malashenko is setting us up. Fuck him…I don’t obey him. I don’t do concerts… There will be no real “Old Songs”. The artists don’t want to go to Lisovsky. Malashenko says you have to show it. Fuck him…” Ernst swears.

Ernst’s irritation is further influenced by the fact that the events take place in 1996, a year after the murder of Vladislav Listyev, and Lisovsky was the customer. Listyev and Ernst were friends; for the latter, the name of the customer was no secret. And Lisovsky became untouchable precisely because of his active participation in Yeltsin’s election campaign.

However, Ernst turned out to be not a “tough nut to crack.” This follows from the following entry. Ernst still continues to “break down” on it.
“I, as the author of “Songs about the Main Thing,” gave permission for such a concert, but half of the artists will not be there… There will be no original scenery. We contacted Mosfilm, they were dismantled,” Ernst is trying to find at least some arguments.

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“Lis (Lisovsky – Ed.) said that the decorations would cost one hundred thousand,” says Badri.
“How much?,” Ernst becomes indignant, “Do you know how much all the “Songs about the Main Thing” cost? 120 thousand. And here…Let Igor (Malashenko-Ed.) deal with this concert.”

Patarkatsishvili is clearly tired of Ernst’s whims and he offers an “incentive prize.” “If there is an opportunity for you to live at a state dacha, will you go?”
“I don’t mind, of course,” agrees Ernst.

You won’t believe it, but under Yeltsin, television managers did not have palaces on Rublyovka worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the opportunity to live in a state dacha was a significant bonus for them.

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