Fame came to the journalist of the âNewspaper of the Donâ after the May 2004 press conference at the Rostov Hotel, Philipp Kirkorov and Anastasia Stotskaya. The cameras captured the scandalous dialogue, which was attended by Philip Kirkorov and Irina Aroyan - âpink blouseâ (photo presented in the article). Having become the object of rudeness on the part of the king of the pop scene, the woman was forced to seek support in court.
Incident
The STS channel ventured to show the frames of a press conference to the whole country, where a presumptuous singer insulted a woman journalist by stooping to the mat and removing her from the audience. None of those present voted in defense of the offended woman, whose security guards took away the recorder and camera from the door outside the door. The reason was the uncomfortable question of why there are so many remakes in the singerâs repertoire. Irina Aroyan was interested in the attitude of the pop king to the problem of the lack of new melodies.
Considering this an attack on his address, Kirkorov made excuses by listing his songs, gradually increasing the degree of dialogue. Even the distracting question of another journalist Stotskaya could not stop the outbreak of aggression. The singer told me that he was annoyed by the journalistâs âpink blouse (hence the phraseological unit related to this incident), boobs and microphoneâ. Accusing the woman of unprofessionalism, he ridiculed her pronunciation and publicly cursed obscenities.
Resonance
Did Irina Aroyan, whose photo conveys her fragility and vulnerability, think that the matter would cause such a huge public outcry? Journalists of Chelyabinsk, and then Krasnoyarsk called for a boycott of Kirkorov, they were supported by Regnum and the Union of Journalists of the country. Tickets for the artistâs tour were not sold out, and until the end of the year he suspended concert activity. On the Internet there was a heated discussion of the scandalous press conference. Opinions were divided: some supported the insulted journalist, others considered her a provocateur and encouraged such public relations to rejoice.
Living with a small salary together with her mother, the woman could not count on defending her honor and dignity in court, but the unexpected support of the above-mentioned organizations made it possible to hire a lawyer and sue the magistrate in part two of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (âInsultâ). Could Irina Aroyan withdraw the application filed in June 2004? The answer to the question can be found in the program âBasic Instinctâ. Television could not help but respond to the event, which stirred up the public.
"The basic Instinct"
Filipp Bedrosovich, who is in Bulgaria, took part in the program of Svetlana Sorokina, communicating on television. While the Rostov journalist was in the studio. The participants in the discussion tried to reduce the problem to a confrontation between artists and the press, delving into âdirty linenâ. The majority of those present spoke in defense of the âvictimâ from the media of Kirkorov, including Daria Dontsova, who has a journalistic education. The participants in the program tried to bring the discussion to justify the singerâs nervous breakdown, paying attention to the lack of professionalism of music writers.
Can Irina Aroyan be responsible for others? The journalist did not hurt the artist. A. Buynov admitted that 90% of Russian music is the theft of other people's ideas. But even the tears of a young woman, her colleague Arthur Gasparyan called hypocrisy. Only a few people defended the journalist, which led to Kirkorovâs reluctance to apologize publicly. His categorical denial of his own guilt led to a subsequent trial.
Trial
The victimâs lawsuit was filed 30 days after the scandal; the trial continued for another two months, at which the pop king of the pop scene never appeared. In an interview, he called himself right, which terribly resented the opponent, who decided to go all the way. Successive star lawyers tried to prove that there was no insult to the journalist and that the case should be re-qualified under the article âMinor hooliganismâ of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, punishing the artist with an administrative fine for foul language.
How did Irina Aroyan take this position? A pink blouse, a symbol of the incident, was worn on all the ladies present on the day the verdict was announced. It was an act of solidarity with a woman. Vladimir Livshits, representing the interests of the victim, managed to prove: the singer publicly humiliated the dignity of a journalist, which is an insult. The court confirmed the guilt of Kirkorov by imposing a fine on him in favor of the state (60 thousand rubles). To remove the charge of commercialism, the victim did not require compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
Apology
Since the broadcast of the materials of the Rostov press conference on the web, an unprecedented action has been launched to collect signatures in support of the boycott of the pop star. 124 thousand people supported the journalist, and only 5% of Internet users found excuses for Kirkorov. Forty periodicals of the country announced their refusal to publish materials about the artist, and radio and television channels stopped broadcasting his songs and videos. The editorial office, where Irina Aroyan works, rang calls every day with words of support from ordinary citizens.
It became obvious: the conflict went beyond the relations of the press and entertainers. The scandal revealed the problem of opposing the domestic elite to the rest of society. Therefore, it became important for everyone that the singer was found guilty by court, and a public apology was brought to the woman. In December 2004, Kirkorov did this on the recording of the Golden Gramophone. Having performed the song of I. Nikolaev âA little sorryâ, he recalled the tradition of asking for forgiveness on New Year's Eve and admitted his wrongness to the Rostov journalist.
Documentary
Did the events of 2004 forget Irina Aroyan? The journalistâs birth date (February 18) coincidentally coincided with the assignment to Philip Kirkorov in 2008 of the title of people's artist. Not being his fan, she wants to forget what happened. Filming in 2012 plunged into the past when the series âLocal Newsâ by V. Shamirov ended in Rostov-on-Don. For extras, local correspondents were invited to the Rostov Hotel again, whose task was to ask the hero Mikhail Police Officer the inconvenient questions in order to activate the debate.
A correspondent of Moskovsky Komsomolets, journalist Aroyan asked the actor whether he considers his candidacy suitable for the role of resident (âUltimatum of the Residentâ), whose image is associated with the legendary Georgy Zhzhenov, who looked brutal and fit. The appearance of the actor does not resemble the prototype of the hero. As a result, the angry actor left the press conference, saying goodbye that since the scandal with Kirkorov, the woman has not wised up at all.
Biography
This episode confirms that Irina Aroyan, a lover of sharp questions, does not go into a pocket for a word . The biography of the journalist, unfortunately, is little known. Her surname belongs to her mother, an ethnic Armenian. His father has Russian and Belarusian roots, but the journalist does not support relations with him, because his parents broke up a long time ago. At 16, she made an independent decision to take her mother's name. The woman has a philological education with which she came to work in journalism. A lover of literature, history and travel, a woman married an Englishman early, but could not live away from her homeland.
Most of all, she was oppressed by professional lack of demand, because according to the legislation of Great Britain, foreigners cannot work in the country for a certain time. Considers himself a non-public person, who was accidentally involved in a showdown with a star.
Today
The woman is still reproached with PR, although Kirkorov himself makes every other scandal recall who Irina Aroyan is. In December 2016, the Frenchman Marouani was detained by his denunciation, with whom the singer remained unsettled financial issues. REN TV asked for comments from a Rostov journalist. Irina still believes that this episode is only an additional touch to the moral character of the Russian star.