NTV called on blogger Ksenia Sobchak to prove in court that she has honor and dignity. Earlier, Sobchack announced that she plans to sue NTV after the publication of a two-part film about her.

On February 12, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced the commercial director of journalist Ksenie Sobchaksk Kirill Sukhanov, the former editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine Arian Romanovsky and journalist Tamerlan Bigaev in the case of extortion.