Former editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine Arian Romanovsky (Kuzmin), who was detained in Moscow along with Ksenia Sobchak's commercial director Kirill Sukhanov, has been charged with extortion, his lawyer Gadzhi Aliyev said, TASS reports .
Romanovsky became the editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine in February 2021 and was until the departure of the Condé Nast publishing house from Russia in April 2022. Today, Sukhanov and Romanovsky should choose a measure of restraint.
On October 25, Sobchak, on the Bloody Lady Telegram channel, spoke about the detention of her commercial director: “Our commercial director Kirill Sukhanov has been detained. They say it's for extortion. It's just nonsense, laughter, nonsense. Kirill is a businessman and our advertiser, I and my entire editorial staff regard this as another pressure on journalism in the country. We have nothing to dig for and it infuriates them. They constantly detain my journalists. Now they have taken up Kirill and are sewing a case for him.”
RIA Novosti, citing a source in law enforcement agencies,reports that Sukhanov was detained in a case of extortion from officials and businessmen through Telegram channels. Later it became known that, together with the director of the media holding "Caution Media", the former editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine Arian Romanovsky, who is involved in the same case, was also arrested. Mash reports that Romanovsky and Sukhanov allegedly created a new Telegram channel on April 27, in which Aryan wrote posts.
On October 26, searches were carried out in the country house of Ksenia Sobchak near Moscow in the elite village of Gorki-8.
Shortly after information about the search, RIA Novosti, citing a source, reported that Sobchak urgently left Russia. “She went to Lithuania through Belarus,” the source quoted the agency as saying.