The husband of the lead singer of the Strelki group received seven years for beating his mistress. The Supreme Court returned to the ex-soloist of the group “Strelki” the apartment that was taken from her by scammers How defenders profit from someone else’s misfortune

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced businessman Sergei Lyubomsky, who is the husband of a singer from the pop group Strelki. A man tried to kill his model lover, preferring an artist nicknamed Radio Operator Kat.

According to the court's decision, Sergei Lyubomsky will spend seven years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security correctional colony, RAPSI reports, citing the victim’s lawyer Oksana Mikhalkina.

It was established that Sergei Lyubomsky, even before his marriage, was in a love relationship with two women at once - artist Ekaterina Kravtsova (Radio Operator Kat) and model Ksenia Timoschenko. Moreover, the businessman lived with Kravtsova in a civil marriage, raising two common children, as reported by the NTV channel.

In the winter of 2015, Lyubomsky planned to kill Tymoshchenko.

On February 2, the convict was waiting for Timoschenko at the entrance of her house. “When she approached the apartment, he hit her in the face, breaking her nose, and then inflicted multiple stab wounds. Before that, he threatened to kill her mother,” said lawyer Oksana Mikhalkina.

On February 13, Lyubomsky was arrested. The crime committed and the investigative actions caused a great resonance. In early March, this story became the subject of Andrei Malakhov’s talk show “Let Them Talk” on Channel One.

Once in jail, Lyubomsky married the lead singer of “Strelok” Ekaterina Kravtsova.

According to Mikhalkina, the defendant did not repent of his actions during the hearing and did not admit guilt to threatening to kill and attempted murder.

The prosecutor asked for 11 years and three months in prison for Lyubomsky.

After the verdict was read out, the injured party expressed satisfaction. “We will not appeal this decision, but we will insist that he serve his sentence in full, without parole,” Mikhalkina said.

Radio Operator Kat version

As Ekaterina Kravtsova explained earlier, her common-law husband was allegedly framed because of a dispute over land.

Six years ago, Sergei Lyubomsky, while doing business with his father, acquired a plot of land with an area of ​​62 hectares in the Chekhovsky district worth 329 million rubles. It was planned to organize a cottage community on this land. But then Sergei’s longtime acquaintance, Leonid Venzhik, “tried to squeeze out” this area, Kravtsova told Express Gazeta.

Three times the Chekhov court ruled in favor of Lyubomsky, but the Moscow Regional Court overturned it. And when the judge of the Chekhov court saw signs of fraud in Venzhik’s actions, he decided to “arrange a setup with Ksenia Timoschenko,” Kravtsova believes.

According to her, Sergei left the family in February 2014 and lived with his mistress until November. During this time, Ksenia took over the house purchased with Lyubomsky’s money and received three expensive cars from him. And after the separation, she allegedly blackmailed him that she would not allow him to see the child if he did not leave her all the property.

According to Kravtsova, after the arrest, the operatives began to offer Sergei a deal: “You give up the plot, and we will release you.”

“And some people of Caucasian nationality are breaking into my house and sending text messages to my phone with insults and threats. In general, everything is in the best traditions of the 90s,” the artist added.

Let us add that Leonid Venzhik admitted the fact of a financial conflict with Sergei Lyubomsky, whom he had known since he was 13 years old. But he claims that during a partnership to develop the infrastructure of the land, he lent Sergei $500 thousand. Then Lyubomsky offered him to buy the land for 900 thousand rubles to pay off his debts. But after receiving the money, he began to avoid registering the transaction.

In the late 90s, the girl group Strelki, created by producers Igor SILIVERSTOV and Leonid VELICHKOVSKY, was no less popular than VIA Gra is now. One of their brightest soloists was young Ekaterina KRAVTSOVA, better known as Radio Operator Kat. Now she performs as part of the new project “Radiocat”. At one of the concerts, our special correspondents got into a conversation with her and learned a lot of interesting things.

“I got into Strelka by accident,” admitted Katya. - Before that, I had never even thought about singing on stage.

"STRELKI": did not hesitate to expose their seductive bodies (photo from Playboy magazine)

My parents and I lived in Lytkarino, near Moscow. But my mother really wanted to move to Moscow. In the early 90s, she and her dad began to transport goods from abroad as “shuttle traders”. And at some point they promoted themselves very well. We bought an apartment in Moscow on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. And then there was a default, and all the money was covered with a copper basin. Dad couldn't stand it. He started hitting my mother hard. One day I came home from school and found her in the kitchen with a broken head. After that, I didn’t communicate with my dad for seven years. I couldn't forgive him for this. Mom, after leaving the hospital, began drinking uncontrollably. There was nothing to live on. The apartment was taken to pay off debts. The only thing we have left is a small batch of shoes in our warehouse. And I, a 14-year-old girl, started selling it on the CSKA market. She earned good money. I rented an apartment. I paid for my mother’s treatment from a psychiatrist. In general, little by little I began to improve my life. And then on the TV show “Klipsa” I heard that they were recruiting girls for the group, and decided to try my luck.

All of us in a room

Did your work at Strelka live up to your expectations?

Where exactly! The producers bought themselves cars, apartments, houses... And we worked like horses. We visited Moscow for a maximum of two days a month and received pennies. We were paid $15 for a 20-minute performance. For a solo concert lasting two hours - 200. This is despite the fact that “Strelki” cost from $5,000 and above.

I am generally silent about the conditions in which I had to work. On tour, we were often accommodated in some hostel, seven of us in one room. And they didn’t even consider it necessary to feed. Moreover, they were constantly fined for being late and other offenses. Now that I’m working on the project myself, I understand that in fact the salary at Strelka was quite normal. After all, of these 5,000 dollars, it was necessary to pay not only us, but also a bunch of people - the sound engineer, administrator, etc. In the end, the producers didn't have much left to do.

It’s no secret that in female groups like Strelok, the participants usually live not off concerts, but off rich fans...

That's how it was with us. But this does not mean that someone was given to rich men for a piece of bread. There were still some feelings. For example, Velichkovsky really liked Yu-Yu (Yulia Dolgashova - M.F.). But she didn't like him. And she didn't sleep with him. But Margot (Maria Korneeva - M.F.) and our sponsor Alexey Potapov, general director of the paging company VessoLink, experienced mutual feelings. And it ended with him marrying her.

Knocked all over your head

The former director of the strip club “Grezy” Andrei Ermonin recently told us that at one of the parties your group performed naked in front of the oligarchs and then splashed with them in the pool (“EG” No. 6, 2006). Was this also done for love? Or were you forced by the producers?

The producers had their own intrigues. Of course, there was no such thing that they could come and say: “You, you and you go and serve so and so.” But attempts, with the help of the group members, to establish contacts with some of the right people actually took place. I remember once we arrived at one radio station, and the producers told us: “If you want to be played here, decide who we will send out?” In principle, this is a normal situation for show business: if you want to be somewhere, you need to do this and that. But even if someone from Strelok was deported to someone, I know nothing about it. In any case, I personally did not participate in anything like that. I had the image of being slightly knocked over the head. Everyone liked that I was so cool. But no one perceived me as a girl. Perhaps that is why all these dirty deeds passed me by.

But what about the sensational billboards with your photographs and inviting inscriptions “Do you want? Call!” with which all of Moscow was hung? We then called, under the guise of customers, your director Vadim Fishman, and he directly said that after the performance it would be possible to agree with the group members on closer communication (“EG” No. 50, 2000).

When these shields appeared, we caused a scandal. They came and said: “Guys! Either you take them off, or we leave the group.” The producers were forced to remove the shields. We already put up with a lot. Take, say, filming in Playboy, because of which I almost quarreled with my boyfriend. Or the same “second cast” with the help of which producers organized Strelok concerts in several places simultaneously. We were simply presented with a fact: “Whether you like it or not, there will be 48 more trains.” This, of course, outraged us. But we had signed contracts, and we couldn’t rock the boat.

Married to an oligarch

Maybe the so-called second squads of Strelok were recruited to please wealthy clients?

It may well be. The participants of the “second cast” received less than us - from 50 to 100 bucks per performance. And at the same time they did not pretend to get into the main team. Then these new girls changed often - about once every six months. For example, I introduced Lana Timakova to Strelki. She gave the impression of a very modest girl. Imagine my amazement when they later told me about her stormy adventures with Serov, Agutin and other stars.

What was the fate of the main cast members?

The first - a year after the creation of the group - was Leah. She studied in the 3rd year of foreign language. Translated from Japanese into English and from English into Russian. I think she's doing very well now. Then Stasya left. Got pregnant by Dutchman Peter. And she became a respectable mother of the family. Now she and Peter already have three sons. Then Mouse left (Maria Solovyova - M.F.). She married Dmitry Lipskerov, writer, creator of the Twin Peaks and Drova restaurants, and member of the Public Chamber. They have a son and daughter. The producers persuaded the girls to stay. They promised to raise wages. But they couldn't hold them back. As a result, they took it out on the remaining ones - they were all fined. Like, they suffered losses and had to be compensated. And in September 2002, our contracts ended. First, Yu-Yu left, who by that time had already recorded a solo album and began performing under the name Beretta. Then Hera began her solo career (Svetlana Bobkina - M.F.). I didn't intend to leave. But the producers hired new girls and fired me. True, then they invited me to return. We tried to reassemble the original lineup. Everyone was called. But no one wanted to return. Apparently, they had enough to eat in seven years.

Dobry Mitrofanov

What did you do after leaving Strelok?

She spun as best she could. For example, at one time I worked as a development director at a dry cleaner. I found wholesale clients and received interest from this. Then everything came at me all at once - my dismissal from Strelok, and a quarrel with my boyfriend. It seemed to me that there was no way out. I got into the car, drove around Moscow for hours and looked for the license plate number of his car. As a result, my psyche could not stand it, and I devoured 20 phenazepam tablets. For my 35 kg live weight this was more than enough. I lay there, looked at the ceiling and thought: “I wish I could close my eyes soon!” This ceiling shook! Fortunately, my mother found me in time, called an ambulance, and they pumped me out. After that I started writing songs. Thus, I seemed to take out the accumulated pain from myself. And then my son Danila was born, and my life began to have meaning.

Who is the father of your child?

The same young man who made me attempt suicide. I started living with him, an ordinary student, while working at Strelka. Now this man has disappeared from my life. Recently he said that I am evil and he doesn’t want to live with me anymore. I'm actually kind. I'm just really tired. He's idle. And I am busy with the child, working, cooking, doing housework. Naturally, by the end of the day I’m already all on my nerves. But now I’m not particularly upset that he left.

How did it happen that you suddenly returned to the stage again?

Deputy Alexey Mitrofanov helped me. Back when I was working at Strelka, he once came up to me after a concert in Sochi, gave me a business card and asked me to call him. “Listen, leave Strelok,” he said when I called. - You are already a popular face. Let's do a project with you." He promised to settle all problems with the contract. But then I refused. And four years later I remembered this conversation. I offered Mitrofanov one of my songs as the LDPR anthem. He immediately invited me to his place at Metropol. My songs, however, did not interest him. But he introduced me to the guys from Tallinn, with whom I made the “Radiocat” project...

JUST A FACT

The other day, the Strelki group, at the invitation of Joseph Kobzon, performed in the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug as part of the singer and politician’s report on his parliamentary work.

SUMMARY OF THE FIRST PART:

Katya Kravtsova from the Strelka group contacted the editorial office of KP with a request to stand up for her husband, businessman Sergei Lyubomsky, who received seven years for attempted murder. According to the singer, Sergei simply hit his former lover Ksenia Timoschenko, broke her nose, and the case received an inadequate assessment because Ksenia’s new companion is the deputy head of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Pavel Pyatnitsky, a person close to the State Duma and law enforcement agencies. Most likely, he acts in collusion with the “raider” Leonid Venzhik and unknown scammers.

Katya was not very convincing: her husband turned out to be not a husband, but a cohabitant, the marriage was registered only when Sergei ended up in a pre-trial detention center, the singer could not name a single successful project of her businessman and was not even going to explain where Ksenia, who, it turns out, had such a the same mistress, like herself, was stabbed...

Damn, how tired of all this... - groaned the statesman Pavel Pyatnitsky. - How this Katya... got us!!!

And he roared several insults at the singer, but made an appointment. In a restaurant where cold appetizers cost from 1500 to 1900 rubles.

A young handsome guy wearing a T-shirt with Putin. From the links sent by Katya, I know that he is a defender of pedophiles, Zhirinovsky’s assistant and suffers from delirium tremens: the documents of the “Ambulance” are posted on the Internet, which indicate, however, not alcoholic psychosis, but brain damage... It’s strange, but it looks so Will not say.

You yourself are a media worker,” says Pavel, “you know how such things are done: sixty percent of the truth is taken and supplied with the most vile lies. Yes, I called an ambulance when I worked in the State Duma as Zhirinovsky’s assistant and lived in a dormitory, because I really have problems with blood vessels and blood pressure, I had concussions, and I had to get hit with an iron pipe in fights! About a pedophile - it was a broadcast of “Let Them Talk”, about a girl who gave birth to an adult. I said: “Yes, I agree, he is to blame, but there is guilt on both sides, the bitch won’t want it, the dog won’t jump up,” and that’s all!!! After that they called me names on all corners, I myself was declared p...m, I wanted to sue!!! And all these leaks of incriminating evidence were done by the people who imprisoned Sergei Polonsky: I worked for Seryoga, and I stood up for him. Polonsky fled and left me powers of attorney for the entire business, I could have robbed him, transferred all the legal entities to myself, and since seven in the morning I was climbing around the construction site for a salary of 320 thousand...

Pavel almost screams, he utters a break, and it’s clear that it hurts a lot. I personally do not sympathize with either Zhirinovsky or Polonsky, but I appreciate loyalty in people.

I met Ksyusha in January 2015, I write poetry - she commented on something on Instagram. I have two unsuccessful marriages behind me, I’m so full of family life... I thought: women are just meat, I don’t need anything else, I saw Ksyusha... I told her my whole life, as if in confession. I realized that I had never loved anyone before! And she said that she was married to businessman Sergei Lyubomsky and has a son...

Married? - I’m surprised.

They were not scheduled, but Sergei lived with her: there were always rumors about Strelka, and Sergei’s parents did not accept Katya. When their son became friends with Ksyusha, Sergei’s mother took his grandmother in so that Ksyusha and Sergei could live in the vacated apartment. Maxim was born...

History turned over like an hourglass.

REVERSED HISTORY

Ksyusha is not a model, she is a normal person, she worked in the personnel department when we met, and before that she and her friend sewed clothes: Ksyusha carried bales of fabrics from China. “Bigger” Sergei was registered as an individual entrepreneur “Kravtsova”, used, as he himself puts it, “rubbish”, Ksyusha lost money and things, she even found a diamond ring in a pawnshop, with which Sergei proposed to her. She lives with this man for five years, loves him, forgives him, fights with hucksters, calls the Federal Drug Control Service to the hotel where he is hanging out. He beats her like a dog! Shoots her in the leg, breaks the window in the car, pulls her through the window, cuts her hands, she is covered in scars. He runs after the car, hits the hood with a knife, and then stands on his knees: “I’m an animal, forgive me, I’ll die without you”...

Swings. Unhinged emotions, unhinged psyche. Typical behavior of codependents.

The tragedy almost happened precisely at the moment of such aggravation of feelings: Sergei, from whom Ksenia left in the fall of 2014, when she lost her child from beatings, in January 2015 begins to bombard her with letters: “I love you! You are my soul mate” (“KP” is familiar with the correspondence. - Ed.). Note that he scribbles this while sitting in Katya’s kitchen, to whom at the same moment he proposes to get married and give birth to a daughter, and Katya believes... Poor Katya.

Sergei buys the husky puppy that Ksyusha dreamed of, takes photos, sends them to her, and then walks the dog around Katya’s house. He brings money for Max, his and Ksyusha’s son, 45 thousand rubles. At first I thought: a normal father! I was eager to talk to him...

The idyll ended as soon as Ksenia told her ex that she was in a new relationship. It started: “Pi...r”, “Let your Pavlushka come here, I’ll piss in his mouth”, “Hey, you, Zhirik’s litter, I’ll clean up for you” - after all, Sergei also read those same links...

Pavel grabbed the phone: “Are you stuck in the 90s? So, according to those concepts, you have sentenced yourself to death!”

They hit the arrow. Pavel, knowing about the client’s inappropriate behavior, asked to supervise the meeting of two operatives. Suddenly Sergei apologized and wished his ex-lover happiness, the conflict seemed settled...

And a few hours later Pavel heard Ksyushin’s whisper on the phone: “Please, he poked a knife in my face, he wanted to kill me...”

“I THOUGHT SHE WAS ENDED!!!”

The details of the crime are known minute by minute, because the case took place in court.

Sergei went to the west of Moscow, where Ksyusha’s mother lives in a Khrushchev building. By the way, Ksenia is not Ukrainian, as I was told at the beginning of the investigation, but a Muscovite, and her mother is a teacher.

He entered the entrance, waited for his mother, slept on the stairwell, and the neighbors saw him.

Mom came, grabbed her by the hair and put a folding knife to her throat: “Be quiet, I’ll kill you.” He walked around the apartment, turning over vases of flowers given by Pyatnitsky. Poking a knife into the sofa. He asked his mother-in-law: “Should I kill you first or this whore?”, he ordered: “If I leave you, you will give Max to Katya” (but she needs it. - Ed.).

Finally Ksyusha called from downstairs.

“They are coming,” my mother said chokedly, and Sergei realized that “they” were Ksyusha and Pyatnitsky. I went to the kitchen to get a bigger knife, and Ksenia was just with her son. The grandmother managed to grab the child and drag her into the apartment, and the man hit his ex-girlfriend in the face down the stairs so that she flew over the flight and began to knead her. Ksenia was screaming, fighting back with her hands and feet, all the glancing blows landed on her hands and face. The doors began to open, the knife broke against the wall. The criminal grabbed the victim and dragged him outside, on the playground he pressed him to the ground with his knee and put a folding knife to his throat. Ksenia held on to the blade and wheezed: “Seryozha, don’t kill, we have a son!”

"Hey!" - some passers-by intervened in the darkness. Ksenia was able to escape and, choking on blood, ran to the highway...

When I rushed to the traffic police post and saw her in the ambulance,” says Pavel, “I thought she was finished!” The pads of my fingers are hanging half-cut off, there’s a hole in my face, it’s taped up here, there’s a hematoma, everything is leaking... I’m yelling: “Do something!!!”

Lyubomsky was taken ten days later. He was sitting at Katya’s house, the opera filmed him walking with the same husky on the territory of a cottage village, and was detained... near Ksenia’s house. Again with two knives.

“Well, why are you weird? - asked the opera. “You almost killed the girl.”

Sergei replied: “It would be better if I killed her.”

...To eliminate doubts among readers: the crime was filmed, the camera was installed at the entrance. Mom and the opera testified, and the boy who picked up the bleeding girl and took her to the post, where they called the doctors, testified.

There are still drops of blood on the stairs: I went there specifically and looked...

Ksenia was treated, she underwent several operations, albeit not the most serious ones. The second victim, a frightened mother, shook for a long time and drank Valocordin...

The prosecutor asked for eleven years for Sergei, the judge gave seven. The Moscow City Court approved the verdict.

And the question arose. Why was I invited to this celebration of life?

"LET'S FUCK HIM?"

Pavel talks, and I listen like a detective.

My job is to visit places of detention, and I know different people, both criminal authorities and intelligence officers. When they found out that I had an accident, many came and said: “Pasha, we will kill him.” Me: “No way! I will act only within the law!” - there is no other way in this profession...

I immediately understand where the terrible letters with promises to release Sergei, which Ekaterina showed me, came from, and why Pyatnitsky asked the leadership of the FSIN to put the detainee in a special unit under round-the-clock surveillance: three or four people in a cell, a refrigerator and a TV. The human rights activist had to hide his enemy from his volunteer helpers.

And so it begins: Sergei is brought to court for a preventive measure, and our lawyer sees bearded guys there - they look like Chechens. And hears my name. I figure out what’s what, go to the State Duma deputy from the Chechen Republic and explain that perhaps an order has been received for my murder. The lawyer managed to take a photo on her phone, they found these people and told them: “Don’t touch Pasha.”

Two months later, my friend, a former intelligence officer, comes and says: “Colleagues have taken an order to break your legs.” He accidentally found out that those people who were preparing already had all the information: where I eat, drink, where I rent an apartment - a few more days and I would have fallen! And there are only six such cases in a year - I come to the cell, they ask me: “Give the man a teapot,” I hand it over, and this turns out to be the son of Osya Butorin (leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group. - Ed.). In the evening they come to me: “Listen, it turns out that you are a normal guy, but they told us that you robbed Lyubomsky, took away his land.”

The trial of Sergei begins, Katya and three FSKN officers arrive there: one in civilian clothes, two with chevrons of the Grom special forces, I go up to shake hands, they say to me: “Listen, p...s, our service will deal with you and yours.” business"!!!

Pyatnitsky loses his temper:

For what?! What did we do to whom?! Did I take Ksyusha away from the family? Or am I imprisoning an innocent person: there is a video of him cutting her! Katya says: “Pyatnitsky took advantage of his position in the PMC.” Yes, if I wanted to take advantage, I would have stuck him in the most densely populated cell, and he, with his character, would have been killed there - but he hasn’t caught a cold in my pre-trial detention center in a year!

And Katya is running around on TV shows again, and again Ksyusha is a model - what kind of model is she to you?! Why are they throwing mud at my wife, with this Lolita (long colorful epithets addressed to Lolita - Ed.), the same... as the “arrow” Kravtsov herself!!!

The scandal with Lolita was notable: the presenter, after listening to Katya’s version of events (the husband just hit his mistress), said: “Wow, the poor thing’s nose was broken, she won’t be able to smell the new oligarch...”

Pyatnitsky posted a response on the Internet, in which the censored words were mainly: “Lolita, aren’t you ashamed?!”

Lolita was offended and ran to complain to the general director of NTV Kulistikov, Pavel was called “from the very top” and demanded to apologize...

Pyatnitsky says that at that moment he was ready to take a gun and shoot off the head of everyone who slandered his family and did not allow him to answer, despite the height of the offices.

...For fear of incurring the wrath of an expressive person, I will risk writing here that he nevertheless used administrative resources. An ordinary person cannot go to a deputy from Chechnya: I really wanted to once, but I couldn’t. And an ordinary person cannot dismiss the special forces soldiers of the FSKN “Grom” by organizing an official audit, which will establish that they, using uniforms and certificates, provided security for E. Kravtsova for money, thereby damaging the reputation and authority of the drug control authorities (document in the possession of KP “, the rest of the statements about “orders” were refused to initiate criminal cases, so we report only Pavel’s opinion about why they wanted to kill him, but we do not report who exactly. - Ed.). And certainly an ordinary person cannot convince the Moscow prosecutor to take personal control of the case if he believes that the investigator is conducting the investigation in the wrong way, forges the signature of the victim and is inclined to the defense version: “Two people fought in the entrance, and the girl herself ran into a knife five times.” ...

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Pavel Pyatnitsky about businessman Sergei Lyubomsky. The investigation is led by Skoybeda: A detective from the life of Rublev's wives "Bloody divorce from the Strelka group, or the rich sing and cry"

The Strelki group is a product of Russian show business in the nineties, when similar groups appeared almost every year. The girls claimed the title of “Russian Spice Girls” along with their colleagues from the group. But the “shooter” was distinguished by the diversity of voices and the personal image of each of the participants.

Compound

The history of the creation of "Strelok" is vague. According to one version, the participants are representatives of the “golden youth”, whose rich parents helped them realize their personal ambitions. According to the second, the girls had to go through a frantic competition. And the third one is basically a fairy tale about Cinderella. Allegedly, the girls sang karaoke at a Turkish resort, and there producers Igor Seliverstov and Leonid Velichkovsky heard them. This happened in 1997.

The first composition of the group "Strelki"

The authorship of the name, which initially, again according to the version, looked like “Strelki”, belongs to the choreographer of the group. The first lineup included 7 people: Svetlana (Gera) Bobkina, Maria (Margot) Korneeva, Ekaterina (Radio Operator Kat) Kravtsova, Maria (Mouse) Solovyova, Anastasia (Stasya) Rodina and Liya Bykova.

In the same 1997, the singers recorded their first songs and presented them to the Soyuz studio. But the studio refused further cooperation. Then the company GALA RECORDS became interested in the group and offered a contract for three albums.

In 1998, the first changes occurred in the composition. Liya Bykova left the group, intending to continue her studies. For some time, a girl named Tatyana, a member of the ballet group, performed instead of her. In September 1998, Larisa (Fox) Batulina appeared.

Subsequently, an incredible leapfrog followed with the Strelka line-up, since at the same time there was a so-called second line-up of Strelka International. Although the participants of the “core” in interviews call the understudies an independent project.

Girls from both lineups periodically came and left from the first to the second. Only true fans can figure out how to change first and last names. By the way, it is unclear exactly which “Strelki” starred in the video for the song “Sexual Revolution”.

In October 1999, Anastasia Rodina left the group. The girl got married and moved to the Netherlands. At the beginning of 2000, Maria Solovyova went on maternity leave. Then, for two years, Salome (Tori) Kitia (Rosiver) and Svetlana Bobkina could be heard in the group’s videos and albums.

In 2002, Yulia Glebova left the Strelka group. Taking the pseudonym Beretta, the singer began her solo career. Soon the producers of the group fired Ekaterina Kravtsova.

The 2003 video “Yugorskaya Dolina” starred Maria Korneeva, Svetlana Bobkina and Larisa Batulina. They were joined by Lana (Lulu) Timakova, Elena (Malaya) Mishina, Natalya Deeva and. In March of the same year, Mishina left and was replaced by Galina (Gala) Trapezova. After some time, Svetlana (Gera) Bobkina and Maria (Margot) Korneeva left the group at the same time. The girls created their own project called “Bridge”.

In October 2003, in a new video, Strelki appeared again with a new lineup: Larisa Batulina, Natalya Deeva, Oksana Ustinova, Lana Timakova and Galina Trapezova. Later, Nastya Bondareva and Nika Knight joined the “base”. Larisa Batulina left the team due to her age.

The American tour in 2004 took place in the composition of Kovalev - Deeva - Deborah - Knight. Timakova, Osipova, Ustinova, Dmitricheva, Trapezova went to France. The latter left the group in 2005, moving to the Wild Berries group.

By 2006, which is considered the year of the collapse of the group, Strelki came together as Timakov - Kovalev - Ustinov - Knight - Deev - Osipov. It is again impossible to speak with complete confidence about the date of the group’s demise. And all because until 2012, different “second” lineups and short-term associations of former members of the group performed at different venues.

According to the girls themselves, the main work stopped back in 2002. The tastes and preferences of viewers have changed. Fundamental changes were required in the group's style and music, but the producers did not want to invest in an upgrade.

The unofficial “Strelok” period begins in 2006. Over the next six years, Osipova, Bondareva, Simakova, Ovchinnikova, Rubtsova, Evsyukova left the group. Aida Valiakhmedova, Olesya Levites, Ellina Tokareva and Deborah Natasha Chloe took part in both the main and second casts.

Music

The first performance under the wing of GALA RECORDS took place at the Metelitsa club. The debut video for “Strelok”, entitled “Mom”, was released in November 1997. A year later, the first album followed - “Arrows are moving forward” with the hit “At the Party”. The song took leading positions in the charts and received 2 awards, including the Golden Gramophone.

In 1998, videos were released for the songs “First Teacher”, “Resort Romance”, “Happy New Year!” and "Moscow". The group received the Ovation Award as the best pop group.

In 1999, Strelki presented a video for the song “You Left Me” with the participation of the famous actor and model Olga Maltseva. The hit became the band's calling card. A year later, the actor was invited to shoot the “Boomerang” video. The song of the same name was included in the album “Strelki 2000”.

In the same year, the album “Everything According to ...” was released, there were tours in America and Germany, a concert at the Olimpiysky, in honor of which Strelki opened an official website. At the same time, the clips “Thorns and Roses”, “I’m Good”, “No Love” were released. The joint work of “Strelok” became the video for the song “I’ll be back.” A sticker album with information about the group and photos of the members has been released for fans.

In 2000, the second Ovation Award followed, along with the biographical film Strelki Go Forward, the video for The Sun Behind the Mountain, and the scandalous Lovelessness. The latest video was awarded the Golden Gramophone, and the single was released in four versions.

In 2001, the album “Megamix” was released - a collection of previously released songs, several new songs and videos. In June 2002, the premiere of the album “Love Me More” took place with the hits “Vetochka” and “Forgive me.” Some of the songs were written by Svetlana Bobkina and. The album includes solo works by Maria Korneeva and Svetlana Bobkina.

In 2003, viewers saw the videos “Veterok” and “Best Friend”. A year later, a tour took place in the USA, new songs were recorded (“Valentine”, “Rain is dripping”, “Bonfire of Letters”). Work began on the album "Odyssey", but it was never released. In subsequent years, “Strelki” shot several videos - for the songs “Heat”, “Don’t Go”, “Mama”.

From 2009 to 2012, Svetlana Bobkina and Yulia Beretta worked in the duet “NeStrelki”, but did not achieve fame.

In 2015, “Strelki” (Tori, Margot, Gera and Kat) were revived to take part in “Disco 90s”. Nostalgia for past success resulted a little later in the songs “A Man in Love” and “I Want to Be Thin,” which were also played on leading radio stations.

Strelki group now

Part of the golden cast on social networks calls themselves “Ex-STRELKI Hera&Margot&Katt”, they started a page on Instagram. Girls perform on radio and television, at presentations, and in clubs. Before they could return, the team suffered losses again. This time Tori left. A young mother of three children refused to appear in a candid video for the song “It’s too late to love me.”

In the fall of 2017, Strelki presented a video for the new song “Adrenaline.” The trio of Ekaterina Kravtsova, Svetlana Bobkina and Maria Bibilova (Kat, Gera and Margot) performed at the Moscow karaoke bar "Cinematograph". Maria, in addition, created her own jewelry brand B.B.Love.

Svetlana, under the name Bobi, is simultaneously working on a solo project. He posts singles and videos on his personal channel on YouTube. Other girls have developed lives outside of Strelok.

Sali Rossiver graduated from the Music College named after. Gnessin and acting course at the theater. Stanislavsky. He runs his own vocal school.

Yulia Beretta is a member of the Russian Film Actors Guild, graduated from GITIS. Her filmography includes 30 films and performances. Sometimes she performs solo as a singer and has recorded two albums.

Larisa Batulina (Lisa) lives in London and is a designer.

Nastya Rodina is also a foreigner, lives in Holland, and has three sons. Works as a yoga instructor.

Leah graduated from the Moscow Linguistic Institute with a degree in English and Chinese translator and moved to Australia. There she received a master's degree in finance from the University of New South Wales.

Maria Solovyova, Dirgen, graduated from GITIS, by education she is a director of the variety department, a teacher and choreographer. Lives in Turkey with her husband and 3 children.

Discography

• 1998 - “Arrows go forward”
• 1999 - “Everything according to...”
• 2000 - “Strelki 2000”
• 2001 - “MegaMix”
• 2002 - “Love me more”

Clips

• 1997 - “Mommy”
• 1998 - “At the Party”
• 1999 - “You left me”
• 2000 - “Boomerang”
• 2001 - “Forgive and Farewell”
• 2002 - “Twig Girl”
• 2003 - “Ugra Valley”
• 2004 - “Don’t Let Me Go”
• 2016 - “It’s too late to love me”
• 2017 - “Adrenaline”

How defenders profit from the misfortune of others

How defenders profit from the misfortune of others

Singer from the Strelka group Katya KRAVTSOVA-LYUBOMSKAYA is suing lawyer Evgeniy TONKY for 900 thousand. The artist believes that the lawyer who represented the interests of her ex-husband Sergei LYUBOMSKY during the criminal trial misled her. Kravtsova told our publication about how not to become a victim of her own lawyer.

Soloist of the popular group "Strelki" Katerina Kravtsova-Lubomskaya met a lawyer Evgeniy Tonkiy in 2015 on the set of the talk show “Let Them Talk,” where she came to tell the country about her grief. Father of her two sons, businessman Sergey Lyubomsky, beat his mistress Ksenia Timoschenko, a criminal case was opened against him under Article 30, Part 1, Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Attempted murder.”

“I called the program myself because I was desperate,” explains Katerina Kravtsova - Lyubomskaya. - At that moment, I was not allowed to visit Sergei in the pre-trial detention center, since I was not officially married to him. A criminal case against Sergei was initiated under the article “Deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm”, and was later withdrawn by the prosecutor and transferred to the investigator of the Dorogomilovsky Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Directorate for the Western Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant of Justice E.I. Gorshkova, who reclassified Sergei’s actions in "Attempted Murder". I did not have a very good relationship with the editors of the “Let Them Talk” program. I was on their black list because I somehow disrupted their broadcast. But Malakhov’s ratings, of course, are impressive, so I chose this show.

As a journalist, I myself have attended similar shows more than once, so I know the inner workings well. In order to lure the hero of the show, they will promise him a free lawyer and psychologist. With experts the situation is different. Some don’t pay anything because they tell a story and rate the program. In this case, on the contrary, the editors allocate an amount to them depending on the information. It can vary from 10 to 500 thousand rubles. But there are those who come to such shows for PR, or to find a big client. As a rule, these are lawyers and psychologists. These representatives, of course, secretly contribute a certain amount themselves, as a human rights activist and public figure, a guest of such shows, told a journalist of our newspaper not long ago Denis Merkulov.

The program was prepared within three days,” says Katya Kravtsova-Lyubomskaya. “I understood that it would probably be the hardest television broadcast in my life.” She knew that the victim of the domestic dispute herself would come - Ksenia Timoschenko and her, at that time, cohabitant, and also part-time expert of this program, Pyatnitsky. We filmed the broadcast, the editor of the program strongly recommended to me lawyer Evgeniy Tonkoy, who was present on the program as an expert, telling me how good and wonderful he is, and only he will be able to win the case. I turned to him. He looked at the case and said: “Katya, don’t worry! “Article 111” - grievous bodily harm - the maximum he can get.” I asked him: “Zhenya, I’m putting my life and Sergei’s in your hands, will you pull it out?” It is clear that no lawyer will give written guarantees, but Thin verbally assured me that the case was winning. There was no limit to the joy.

I'd give a million

Evgeniy Tonkiy invited Katya to sign an agreement for 650 thousand rubles for the period of work before the investigation.

If at that moment he asked to bring a million, I would have done it,” says Katya. - The investigation lasted for a month and a half. We had a medical examination on hand, which said that Ksenia had suffered minor harm to her health - a broken nose and cut wounds on two fingers of her left hand. In addition, I find out that in Ksenia’s medical record, according to her words, it is written that what happened was a domestic fight. Lawyer Tonkiy responded to my arguments: “I have my own position.”

Before entering the trial, Evgeniy Tonkiy asked for money for his work during the hearings.

He asked for another 900 thousand rubles,” says Katya. - I continued to believe him and signed the agreement. And after some time, it dawned on me - Tonky and Pavel Pyatnitsky are experts on the same programs. But even then I still couldn’t imagine that you could make so much money from someone else’s grief. Everything somehow fell on my shoulders at one moment. I started receiving threatening text messages on my phone. I assume that from Pyatnitsky, who defended Ksenia. During the same period, I started having problems with an apartment that scammers sold under a false power of attorney. In general, I realized that I couldn’t pay lawyer Tonkoy 900 thousand for the trial. I called him and said: “There is no need to go to the trial, I cannot pay for your services.” In addition, I sent written notice by mail that I was canceling the agreement. Only Thin did not let up: “Katya, I understand everything. I am ready to defend your husband for 450 thousand rubles. You’ll give me the money when you have it.” I agreed. At one of the last court hearings, he says: “Kat, give me a receipt that you borrowed 450 thousand from me.” I wrote. And at the next key meeting - the interrogation of Sergei, lawyer Tonkiy no longer came.

Money bag

Katya Kravtsova did not expect that the judge would sentence Sergei Lyubomsky to seven years in a maximum security colony.

After the verdict, Thin came up and said: “Katya, we need to sign the agreement. Shall we go to appeal? I explained in tears that I no longer needed his services. And a couple of months later he writes me a message: “Katya, when will you repay the debt, 450 thousand rubles?” I reminded him of the conversation that he promised that Sergei would only be charged with “Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” but Tonky didn’t want to hear anything, he set a deadline - he had to pay until June 2016. In July, a claim was filed in the Krasnogorsk City Court for 450 thousand rubles, and with interest. He explains to the court that he handed over the money before the court hearing, near the Dorogomilovsky court building. While actually walking, he did not give or convey anything. I attached a protocol to the case, which indicated at what time the court hearing began in the Dorogomilovsky court, my mother, as a witness, explained that I entered the court building alone, and not with him. I managed to get a billing for my phone number, which showed that at 14.30 it was “linked” to a cellular network station located 27 km from the Dorogomilovsky court building, and at 14.58 my conversation with Tonkiy was recorded. The judge of the Krasnogorsk court attached all these documents to the case, but ruled in his favor.

Imagine Katya Kravtsova’s surprise when she received another claim, but now under the same agreement under which she must pay for the services of lawyer Tonkoy, for 900 thousand.

Now we are suing for this money,” says Katya. “I wrote a complaint to the Bar Association, but there was no reaction,” says the artist. - Finding yourself in a situation where you become a money bag, I realized what it’s like for our fellow citizens. The only plus is that I do not have signed certificates of work completed from Evgeniy Tonky. It is difficult to prove that lawyers go to programs where they meet star clients who have money and catch the victim. I asked to remove Tonky from the broadcasts of “Let Them Talk,” but the editors did not do this. Question: why? I think the lawyers have an agreement with the editors: a percentage of the fee for a rich client.

P.s.

Without abandoning her loved one in trouble, Katya Kravtsova married him in a pre-trial detention center in 2015.

In 2016, I received a summons that Sergei had filed for divorce,” says the artist. - Someday I will find out why. Maybe, from his point of view, I didn’t fully fight for him. Everything changed when he was transferred to the zone in Mordovia. I think it was because I refused to go on a long date. She said: “Come on, I’ll calmly wait for you here. You will come back and prove that you are worthy of me.” As a woman, I wanted to see real steps, that he understood important things. Sergei corresponds with the children. I don't interfere with their relationship. The boys miss their dad. When the children wanted to go on a date with their dad, I took this step... For me, Sergei’s action is clear: he left our family, even though we weren’t registered at that time, bought a house for 15 million and registered it in Ksenia Timoschenko’s name. She bore him a son, and he proposed to her. Ksenia fell in love with someone else - Pavel Pyatnitsky. Sergei came to talk and dot all the I’s, and a domestic scandal occurred with assault. I wrote the song “It’s Too Late to Love Me” about this story. What is broken can hardly be mended. But as the mother of Sergei’s children and a person who has lived with him for years, I will not leave him in trouble.

The mother of murdered model Loshagina sold her house

Mother of a murdered model from Yekaterinburg Yulia Loshagina, whose story shocked the whole country, Svetlana Ryabova, also suffered financially from a Moscow lawyer Evgenia Chernousova. The woman turned to the Russia-1 channel program “Live with Boris Korchevnikov” at the moment when her husband, a photographer, was accused of murdering his daughter Dmitry Loshagin, acquitted.

Svetlana participated in the broadcasts, hoping that they would help her, the journalist said on the channel Marina. - Lawyer Evgeniy Chernousov, who came to our broadcast as an expert, gained her confidence and promised to resolve all the issues. They hoped that he would provide her with qualified legal assistance. As a result, Chernousov asked for such a fee for helping that Svetlana Ryabova had to sell the house in the village. I received the money, but did not come to the trial. When Svetlana turned to us, we had to help out. We were indirectly involved in this. It’s good that lawyer Sergei Zhorin helped, whom we asked and he participated in the process for free and ensured that the maniac Loshagin was found guilty and sent to prison. And we don’t invite lawyer Chernousov to our programs anymore.

Svetlana Ryabova confirmed that she transferred funds to lawyer Chernousov.

“I donated several large sums,” says Svetlana Ryabova. - But Chernousov wanted more and more. The last time he asked for 600 thousand rubles. Only then did I turn to the channel and was indignant: “Who did you recommend to me?”

How to avoid becoming a victim of your own lawyer

When contacting a legal organization, you need to understand that interest in the client will be lost as soon as he transferred the money, says a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Mikhail Ignatov. - Since we live in the world of capital today, many lawyers engage in “double-dealing”: having entered into an agreement with one party, they work for the other. Try to find a lawyer on the recommendation of your close friends whom you trust. If you come to an unfamiliar lawyer, ask on the forum what reviews his former clients leave. Ask for statistics on cases they have won and lost. If the lawyer promises something specific, forget about it immediately. No professional defense attorney will say, “I’ll do it.” Immediately inquire about the fees for preliminary and judicial investigations and draw up a preliminary agreement for both processes. Request a report on the work performed. If you are not satisfied with the lawyer's work, send him a notice of termination of the agreement and be sure to save the receipt of the mailing notice, because in the future claims of a material nature may be brought against you for your unpaid fees under the agreement that you terminated in advance.