On February 8, an FBK investigation was released into the ties between businessman Oleg Deripaska and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. It relied on materials from Instagram and the book of Nastya Rybka, an escort employee who was on a yacht in Norway with Deripaska and Prikhodko. On February 21, Alexei Navalny published an interview that his press secretary Kira Yarmysh took from Nastya Rybka and her "mentor", sex trainer and Skolkovo resident Alex Leslie. Meduza publishes a retelling of the main fragments of this interview, direct quotes are given in quotation marks.
Nastya Rybka: Oleg Deripaska is a tall, stylish, handsome man with charisma, my type. "Behaves in such a way that everything is possible for him." We did not publish one of the three books about him - a familiar political scientist said that we would be killed. According to Sergei Prikhodko's expression alone, "Deripaska immediately runs to resolve the problem." It seemed that Deripaska treated him like a father. On yachts, no one is forcing anyone to have sex. Escort girls usually do not refuse. One of the girls on the yacht "apparently wanted something from Prikhodko, and she understood that she needed to get [it] through the bed."
Alex Leslie: For the elite, such trips on a yacht are “not a bribe, because they always live like that.” We did not perceive the materials about Deripaska as compromising evidence. When one of the girls gave Deripaska a book by Nastya Rybka, he was shocked. Then Rybka decided to publish materials about him on Instagram so that he would relax and not be afraid that she would blackmail him. When Rybka was arrested for having sex on the street and threatened, Deripaska's lawyers helped her.
Photo in the announcement: Alexey Navalny / Youtube