Lawyers for channel administrators Put out the lights (arrested on allegations of extortion from…

Lawyers for the administrators of the channel Put out the Lights (arrested on a complaint of extortion from Sergei Chemezov), Ariana Romanovsky and Tamerlan Bigaeva, claim that the owner of the channel was Ksenia Sobchak (her interests were represented by director Kirill Sukhanov) and they posted all the posts on Sobchak’s orders. The defenders even presented the relevant contracts. Romanovsky and Bigaev have already given appropriate testimony to the investigation.

The Cheka-OGPU wrote on October 26 that Sobchak was involved in the “Lights Out” project. But the situation was not at all as the lawyers of the arrested said. There was talk of launching the show “Lights Out” on YouTube, which would be hosted by Romanovsky. The relevant documents were signed (documents specifically about the show on YouTube), but then a dispute arose about the distribution of future income. Romanovsky, in addition to payment for the work, unexpectedly wanted a percentage of the income, to which Sobchak did not agree. As a result, the show never appeared on YouTube, but the anonymous channel “Lights Out” appeared. It was hosted by the team that Sobchak wanted to involve in the show, but Ksenia herself insists that she had nothing to do with the channel.

This is how our source described in October how Arian Romanovsky appeared in Sobchak’s circles and negotiations were underway.

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“You wrote about internal strife earlier. There was no scandal as such. Ksenia just felt that a number of people who were involved in podcasts needed to be fired. Their work was not economically justified. And she fired me. Naturally, someone was unhappy. And in their place others came, just that same Aryan…. Sobchak especially tried not to shine the spotlight on the editors. The headquarters is located in Petrovsky Lane next to the Russian Military Historical Society and the Theater of Nations. There I saw this Aryan for the first time. It was this summer. We were sitting in the kitchen and suddenly an incomprehensible but mannered young man came in. After he left, Ksenia told me that he offered her a project. Sobchak became interested in the idea. The idea was to create a podcast show on glossy topics on YouTube. This is both video and audio, like live radio. As far as I know, Arian was supposed to be the host and “pull” guests into the studio: celebrities, fashion industry figures, brand representatives. They seemed to have already agreed on the concept, were at the stage of discussing shares (Arian wanted to have a percentage, and Ksenia offered him a fixed salary), and about attracting sponsors. On behalf of Ksenia, Kirill Sukhanov has already “finished off” the project.”

However, the project was never launched.

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