{"id":301901,"date":"2026-02-20T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:45:14","slug":"charli-xcx-addresses-backlash-around-afterparty-with-alleged-kremlin-ties-%c2%b7-news-%e2%9f%8b-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301901\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX addresses backlash around afterparty with alleged Kremlin ties \u00b7 News \u27cb RA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charli XCX addresses backlash around afterparty with alleged Kremlin ties \u00b7 News \u27cb RAThe Brat superstar said she wasn&#8217;t aware of the affiliations around the Berlin event.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMucmEuY28vaW1hZ2VzL25ld3MvMjAyNi9jaGFybGl4Y3gucG5n.png\" alt=\"Charli XCX addresses backlash around afterparty with alleged Kremlin ties image\"   class=\"Image-sc-mve7dk-0 cUdKrd\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/charlixcx\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/charlixcx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charli XCX<\/a> has spoken out after criticism over her appearance at an afterparty following the Berlin International Film Festival premiere of her mockumentary <a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/news\/82004\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/news\/82004\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held in the German capital last Saturday, February 14th, was organised by Russian model and DJ Anastasia Shevtsova, AKA <a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/petit\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/petit\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Petit<\/a>. Shevtsova&#8217;s mother Zhanna is the founder of the Traditsiya Foundation, an organisation that works with the Kremlin-backed Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives and runs projects in territories of Ukraine occupied, per <a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/how-a-berlin-afterparty-for-charli-xcx-leads-back-to-russian-operations-in-occupied-ukraine-15948\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/how-a-berlin-afterparty-for-charli-xcx-leads-back-to-russian-operations-in-occupied-ukraine-15948\" target=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United24 Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared to Instagram Stories yesterday, February 19th, Charli XCX said neither she nor her team were aware of &#8220;any of the alleged affiliations around the party in Berlin,&#8221; and reiterated that she stands against actions by the Russian government in Ukraine and in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n<p>This conflicted with United24 Media&#8217;s article, which claimed that both Charli&#8217;s team and the venue managers were &#8220;made aware of the organisers&#8217; background and their reported family connections to structures operating in Russian-occupied territories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shevtsova also posted a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU8LLaIiEHu\/\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU8LLaIiEHu\/\" target=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> yesterday, saying she&#8217;s not involved in politics, and that her family spans Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Read Charli XCX, Shevtsova and United24 Media&#8217;s posts in full.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/charlistatement.png\" class=\"Image-sc-mve7dk-0 cUdKrd\"\/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli XCX addresses backlash around afterparty with alleged Kremlin ties \u00b7 News \u27cb RAThe Brat superstar said she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8232,14772,146,170,85,46,33516,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-301901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-charli-xcx","9":"tag-english","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-magazine-news","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}