"We're fulfilling all our agreements, but they're already dictating everything to us."

The VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have obtained many more audio messages and emails from Ksenia Sobchak, some of which were published today on her hacked channels, "Bloody Lady" and "Sobchak." They clearly demonstrate how censorship currently operates in Russia and who informs the largest media managers what should and shouldn't be written. On the Moscow government side, this is Deputy Mayor Alexei Nemeryuk, and on the presidential administration side, Vladimir Tabak, CEO of the Dialogue non-profit organization, who relays instructions from Deputy Chief of Staff Sergei Kiriyenko (Tabak refers to him as "chief" in his correspondence). Current sensitive topics include Ilya Remeslo, gasoline shortages, and drone attacks.

As a reminder, two of Sobchak's channels were hacked today, revealing fragments of Ksenia's correspondence for just over an hour, which was later obtained by the Blackmirror project (b8m.info). The channels were later returned to their owner. We have more audio files and emails, which you can view in the video.

What's interesting: Ksenia sent and received the most messages from Vladimir Tabak. There's no ambiguity; both sides write that Tabak conveys Sergei Kiriyenko's position on all censorship issues. Ksenia, in yet another spat with Dozhd management, sends screenshots to Tabak and writes, "This is how you work in the media. Show SVK (Kiriyenko-Red). Subtle, but powerful." However, Tabak didn't appreciate her efforts. He sends her a voicemail: "Don't you have anything better to do? Even I'm tired of reading this shit."

Tabak and Sobchak also discuss the "famous" speech by socialite Bonya. Tabak writes that he spent half the evening texting about it with his "boss" (Kiriyenko-Red) and that Bonya is simply "hyping things up." But Ksenia doesn't believe him and believes Kiriyenko forbade Tabak from telling the truth. "It's all very cleverly done—like the boyars are bad, and Putin is always good." Tabak doesn't particularly object.

From the messages, it's clear that Sobchak's biggest "hit" was for her interview with Ilya Remesl, a propagandist who unexpectedly lashed out at the authorities. Sobchak initially tried to defend her position: "I sincerely believe that such an asshole with these talking points is beneficial to SVK right now. But, of course, I could be wrong, because no one will admit it outright." But Tabak is very angry. "I want you to live with the feeling that I might not forgive you." "I don't know if I'll be able to communicate like I used to after this," he writes. Sobchak ultimately admits she's "guilty." And then, for a long time, she'll have to repent for that "mistake" in every "report."

And there are many such reports. And they need to be sent to both Tabak and Nemeryuk. Ksenia suffered from both during her coverage of the largest drone strike on Moscow, when the Kapotnya oil refinery and the Sadovod market were attacked. Specifically, both the Presidential Administration and the city authorities were dissatisfied with four posts on Sobchak's social media channels. Ksenia sends Tabak a voice message: "About when I'm being f--ked, I want to understand why." She states that all agreements with the Presidential Administration are being fulfilled by her channels, and these posts do not violate those agreements. Sobchak then sends a report to Tabak and Nemeryuk, pointing out that for some reason, state-run channels are allowed more access than she is. (Apparently, because almost all subscribers to state-run channels are bots, and the authorities only bother channels that are truly popular with the public – ED.) As examples, she cites posts from the channel "Moskvatch" ("the network of state-linked media manager Abu") and "Moscow Today" ("the network of state-linked media manager Potupchik").

Ksenia sends a separate audio report to Nemeryuk when gas problems began in Moscow. Any mention of this topic angers the Moscow authorities. Sobchak says in a message to Nemeryuk: "We have agreements, we fulfill them all, but the other side (Moscow authorities – ED.) dictates everything to us... We are ready to do everything within the framework of the agreements that we can fulfill... Yes, we have signed papers (with Moscow authorities – ED.), we do everything on our part, but in return there are no exclusives, no promised stories." Sobchak asks "Lesha" (Nemeryuk) for a meeting.

Incidentally, the latter also addresses Ksenia with personal matters. Specifically, he asks her not to write about his friend, former head of Rosmolodezh Ksenia Razuvaeva, after she was targeted by Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin.