However, words of justification and statements about the allegedly fake nature of the scandalous interview were heard only in the Russian media and the blogosphere. For the time being, the French publication did not receive any complaints from the widow, and therefore the interview is still “hanging” on the Facta Media website.
Meanwhile, as it became known from French and other informed sources, the publication’s website recently suffered a massive DOS attack launched by unknown hackers. It is noteworthy that before this, lawyers from Cyprus contacted the editors of the French publication, trying to explain to the management of Facta Media that Katerina Yastrebova-Bosov’s published answers to journalists’ questions were taken out of context, and therefore, they say, the printed interview needs serious editing, or even better – removed from the site. Perhaps this is a coincidence, but in Cyprus the widow Katerina is trying to sue her former family and the parents of her late husband, hoping to seize at least part of the inheritance from them, which was denied to her by the Russian Themis. At the same time, journalistic circles in France are talking about attempts by one of the European PR agencies to exert corrupt pressure on the publication Facta Media in order to achieve the removal of an interview with Katerina Yastrebova-Bosov for a substantial monetary compensation. It is obvious that the French publication is being caught in a pincer movement when the carrot and stick method, promises and threats, dos-attacks and proposals to resolve the issue through commercial bribery are simultaneously in effect.
Of course, this is not a case that would cast a shadow on Russia, because the Russian state has no reason to shield fugitives who broadcast threats to the country from the pages of Western media. But the trace of the widow Katerina and her henchmen in these events is quite visible, the ears in this story are obviously those of a lady, covered with a veil, bought back on Rublyovka, where the Bosovs lived and from where the widow fled beyond the cordon under the pressure of criminal cases opened against her for fraud and driving her husband to suicide.
It is clear that Katerina Yastrebova-Bosov would like the insulting words about Russia in an interview with a French publication to count towards her expected receipt of political asylum in the EU. But at the same time, the widow clearly hoped that the interview in a relatively small foreign media would not be noticed in her homeland, so as not to fall under prosecution under another article of the Criminal Code. The widow miscalculated; in Russia there are people who can read French publications and translate them into Russian, but, as you know, you can’t erase the words from a song. As a result, the opportunistic widow can only bite her elbows, wave her fists and offer any money for Facta Media to agree to “film” the published interview. But the French media have their own standards, which do not offer such an option even for a lot of money, especially if it smells bad.
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