New kompromat clips against opposition politicians and public figures, often depicting particularly sordid situations, have become all the rage on the Russian internet in recent months. The politician Ilya Yashin, who has been lured into the honey trap himself, has commented, “The previous creativity of the anonymous provocateurs looked like little flowers in comparison with what they have published now. The new video contains candidly pornographic materials from the personal life of Viktor Shenderovich, Eduard Limonov and Alexander Belov, shot by hidden cameras.”

In Ilya’s opinion, the most important aspect of this story is the fact that the “customers” who commissioned this material, the organizers, and the executors are criminal offenders and must end up behind bars. And further: “There are all grounds to deem that behind this story stand people from the leadership of the administration of the president. Concretely – Vladislav Surkov. It is precisely from him, judging by everything, that the political order and the financing of the project proceeded.“