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The stars of the show “Ural Dumplings” Dmitry Brekotkin and Dmitry Sokolov, as well as their new general director Evgeny Orlov, decided to reveal the truth about the machinations of Sergei Netievsky. The ex-team leader filed a lawsuit according to which former colleagues could not use the Ural Dumplings trademark, but so far this issue has not been resolved. Netievsky left his post as team director in 2015. According to Evgeny Orlov, the former manager presents information differently when telling journalists about parting with the team.
“Sergei Netievsky, who embezzled money from television activities(sale of programs on STS), considered the money already appropriated insufficient. He is suing the team, trying to prohibit the disposal of old programs, the rights to which he himself stole from the team. He wants to be the sole owner of the rights, he wants more and more. He lies in an interview that he left on his own, although he was expelled from the team two years ago in disgrace,” Orlov noted.
Brekotkin and Sokolov, who have known Netievsky for many years, confirm that he deceived them. When the show “Ural Dumplings” launched on STS, the ex-director constantly talked about low payments from the channel. The team members decided to clarify the situation.
“Once on the set we had a conversation with a representative of STS, during which we realized that there is money in this business. After that, we held a meeting at our creative base and asked Netievsky to come with all the contracts and reporting documents. At the meeting, it became clear that our friend was embezzling our income from television activities. Netievsky had to admit everything,” Sokolov explained.
The comedian claims that they encountered Netievsky’s dishonesty during the tour. According to Dmitry, Sergey received much more money from the organizers than he paid the team. Brekotkin does not know if there is any explanation for such an act of a man whom they knew from their student days.
“To say it’s a shock is an understatement. Can be compared to the end of the world! Approximately the same reaction as if a person found out that he had cancer... Apparently, he did not consider us either friends or colleagues. Or stopped considering them as such at some point,” Dmitry shared.
Some team members hoped that Sergei would apologize and change his behavior. They were ready to forgive him and go to peace. However, Sergei stood his ground, believing that he was completely right.
“We told him: “Well, this happened. Let’s call it “the devil has confused me” or “dizziness from success.” You're wrong. You have a way out, you say: “Okay, guys, I admit that I’m wrong. I’ll try to give something back.” Do you know what he replied: “What are you talking about? It’s all of you who are wrong, not me!” Then we kicked him out of the directors, created a new enterprise, we have creative work, new projects,” said Brekotkin
As the artists admitted in an interview with Sobesednik, they lost a friend and comrade, Netievsky became a stranger to them.
Let us remind you that Sergei Netievsky left the team in 2015 with a scandal. After this, numerous court hearings began. The former director and comedians fought for the right to use the Ural Dumplings trademark. In February 2017, the court rejected the claim of Netievsky’s opponents.
“There were six hearings on this case. However, the verdict was constantly postponed. I don’t understand why they wanted to solve everything through lawyers, because no one was hurt. When I was reinstated as director last fall, I transferred to the team the rights to use the trademark, both text and combined, for a symbolic payment of one ruble. I’m not sure, but it seems they wanted to collect some kind of monetary compensation from me,” said the ex-director.
In addition, Netievsky ordered his former colleagues to pay the amount he spent on legal services. The court demanded that the Ural Dumplings team return 300 thousand rubles to the former producer.
Four years ago, the artists told how, thanks to Sergei Netievsky, a show appeared that was able to win the hearts of an audience of millions.
Sergey Netievsky is a talented comedian and a person who has invested a lot of effort in the development and establishment of the show “Ural Dumplings”. Moreover, thanks to his efforts, the team went beyond the gates of KVN and became federal. And after Sergei took over as director, he was able to conclude a long-term contract with STS for filming and showing performances.
First version
Netievsky had to leave the Pelmeni team due to the fact that “his own shirt is closer.” Sergei realized that his own well-being is much more important than the team’s money. Therefore, he simply left the project, leaving his friends to “float freely.”
Sergei switched to producing television series and other projects, so he did not want to waste personal time on the show - there is no interest, there is no such profit.
This is the version voiced by some of the participants Ural Pelmeni, however, Sergei Alexandrovich himself does not agree with her. Sergei told a completely different story, radically different from the first. In support of his version, it can be noted that it is supported by two years of litigation.
Second version
According to this version, presented to the public by Sergei himself, at first he did not know at all that he had left the project. Yes, yes, this happens. As it turned out, the team members had long looked askance at their friend, who held the post of director. Most of the team was sure that Sergei not only poorly paid their work and labor, but also took all the money for himself. There were also complaints that Sergei began to spend too much time on other projects, abandoning his own show.
After some time, the team simply got together and wrote a class action lawsuit, in which there was a request to remove the director of the Unitary Enterprise from their position. Naturally, no one warned Netievsky about this / But Sergei, having learned about this, filed documents for an appeal, and it was accepted in 2016. Then the team filed another lawsuit, and Netievsky filed a counterclaim.
After the trials took place, Sergei was reinstated in his director’s position, and the class action was declared illegal. But why then did Sergei leave? Nothing surprising - after all the events it would be difficult to simply forget the sidelong glances and the class action lawsuit, and the old Ural friendship was no longer there. Therefore, Sergei handed over the affairs to Isaev and wrote a letter of resignation at his own request.
Where is Sergei now and what is he doing?
On this moment The former director of the comedy show still lives in Golden-Domed with his family. Sergei owns his production studio Idea Fix Media. The studio's main activity is producing television series.
Members of the creative association “Ural Dumplings” became famous back in the 90s, when they performed in KVN. Following the victory in the 2000 season finale, fame came with money: the Ekaterinburg residents became stars of the STS television channel and began touring with their show throughout the country. On the wave of popularity, the team twice - in 2013 and 2015 - was included in the ranking of the richest showbiz artists, earning $2.8 million and $800 thousand, respectively.
The price of tickets for the Ural Dumplings concerts reached tens of thousands of rubles, and new program was broadcast in federal prime time approximately once every two months. The quarrel looked all the more unexpected from the outside.
How did it happen that former friends speak to each other only through their representatives in courtrooms?.
On October 21, 2015, information appeared that Sergei Netievsky had left his position as director of the show. At first, former Kaveen members did not speak out about the reasons for this decision, which only contributed to the spread of rumors: “the guys expressed no confidence in him,” “financial conflict,” “Netievsky has many projects on the side.”
Later that day, the general director of the Ural Pelmeni Production company (producing the show), Alexey Lyutikov, expressed the official position of the team. As usual: “The decision to change the director was a simple management move that will increase efficiency.” The problem was Netievsky’s residence in Moscow; at some point this caused discomfort among his colleagues.
- Many rumors appeared, including that the reason for the resignation was a financial conflict. What happened?
Sergei felt cramped in Yekaterinburg. He himself has said more than once in interviews that he has become a Muscovite and that he is much more comfortable in the capital. In other words, Sergei ceased to be a “dumpling in a pan” and became a “fish in water.”
As for rumors about political or financial disputes, we do not even comment on this. We don't want to make excuses to anyone. We are honest with each other. We have no behind-the-scenes games, no kitchen secrets. It's funny for us to read about this in the media.
- Will Netievsky remain on the team?
No one was kicked out, no one was fired. Now Sergey will be working on his projects in Moscow, and we wish him success in this. If Sergei Netievsky wants to continue working in the team, then we will sit down with him and discuss everything.
Next year is the anniversary of KVN, followed by the anniversary of Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov. We will be happy to invite both Sergei Svetlakov and Sergei Netievsky.
- Did you and other team members manage to maintain friendly relations with him?
Certainly. I think that this is such a feature of the Urals - we are kind, reasonable people. Normal, friendly relationships are important to us, because it’s easier to live this way. The main value is decency and good attitude towards each other, which we will always maintain as a team.
At the same time, Sergei Netievsky tried to launch the entertainment project “Show from the Air.” The co-author was Alexander Pushnoy, known for the scientific and entertainment program “Galileo”. It was planned that the program would be broadcast on STS.
In February 2016, the unofficial leader of the Ural Dumplings. “Netievsky went his own way... I won’t wash dirty linen in public. The situation here is too complicated. It hasn’t been fully resolved yet, so…” he said.
In the spring, two participants announced their interests outside the show: Vyacheslav Myasnikov collected his good songs into an album, and Yulia Mikhalkova wanted to go to the State Duma and. “I didn’t act naked. “I had a photo shoot in an information magazine,” this is how the prima of “Ural Dumplings” responded to the question about filming in Maxim.
As it turned out, many of the team’s legal issues were tied to Netievsky. To move away from his past life, Sergey Isaev came up with an idea to update the branding. The winner of the competition for the best logo was promised money.
As it turned out, Sergei Netievsky himself was against changing the status quo and did not agree with his dismissal. The showman felt that he had been improperly notified. On June 1, the arbitration court began to examine labor relations and the form of their termination.
A month later, the court sided with the ex-director. During that meeting, Ural Dumplings lawyer Olga Yuryeva suggested that in fact Netievsky did not need a chair: “This process is a way to block and slow down the process that is now underway in the Moscow Arbitration Court. The essence of the matter is that we are challenging the transfer of a trademark from one company, where Netievsky owned 10%, to another, where he owns 100%.”
At the same time, Ural Dumplings filed a lawsuit to invalidate the decision to alienate Netievsky’s firm of exclusive rights to a verbal trademark worth 400 million rubles.
August 10 in a room at the Angelo Hotel. The team went underground for a month and did not speak to journalists.
In October, the 17th Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the lower court, confirming that the director of the creative association is Sergei Netievsky.
By December, the warring parties seemed to be. This outcome, in theory, suited everyone. Although Netievsky was de jure reinstated in his position, he did not have any real influence on the team, and the participants of the “Ural Dumplings” did not need a formal, but managerial superstructure.
In the last week of 2016, comedians at their meeting elected a new director: .
In May 2017, Ural Dumplings lost a trademark appeal. Lawyer Evgeniy Dedkov said that the right to the brand was already on the balance sheet of the plaintiff; his client Sergei Netievsky registered the mark for the group when he was in the status of director of Pelmeni. And for some reason comedians still continue to sue.
By the summer, a new lawsuit began between Netievsky and Ural Dumplings. Lyutikov's successor as general director, Evgeniy Orlov, said that from the sale of the show on STS and touring activities. To do this, he organized the Idea Fix Media company, which, in fact, became the owner of all Pelmeni programs.
“In general, there were always hints that something was unclean. He considers his actions lawful. Nine people are wrong, and he is right! He said: “This is a business. In Moscow, all producers do this.” That is, for some reason he imagined himself to be our producer. Although everyone in our team has an equal contribution to the common cause, and income should also be equal,” Dmitry Sokolov said then.
Sergei Netievsky, commenting on the accusations, expressed regret that his former comrades fell under bad influence. “A television product is created not only by actors and authors, it is created and promoted by the work of a well-coordinated team of a production company under the leadership of producers. I did a lot of work as a producer and really made the Ural Dumplings KVN team into a popular television show! Launching a TV project is a different level of responsibility and risk compared to actors and authors and, accordingly, it’s a different payment,” the producer explained his point of view.
On July 17, the court again sided with Netievsky - at that time, the claims of “Ural Dumplings” were that the ex-director sold the rights to the anniversary concert “We are 16 years old” to the STS TV channel. Because gladiolus! ”, without warning the team about it. According to Ural Dumplings, Sergei took the money from the deal for himself.
A new round of litigation started in the fall. Firstly, the Moscow Arbitration Court held a trial against Dmitry Sokolov, Sergei Kalugin, and Vyacheslav Myasnikov. Sergei Netievsky's company - LLC "Fest Hand Media"- asks to cancel contracts with its subsidiary. The court rejected the claim.
Secondly, other claims from LLC "Fest Hand Media" to Ural Pelmeni Production, where the plaintiff claims that Evgeny Orlov, as CEO of Idea Fix Media, caused damage to the company. He allegedly sold 73 archived concerts to Uralskie Pelmeni Production for 861 thousand rubles, after which Uralskie Pelmeni Production transferred the recordings to STS for 231.3 million rubles. The first instance rejected the claim, after which Fest Hand Media filed an appeal.
And the other day the Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court began considering another application from Ural Dumplings. Lawyers want money that he allegedly appropriated for himself while he held the position of director of the Unitary Enterprise. Netievsky spent these funds through his own individual entrepreneur, although there was no need for this, a representative of Pelmeni said, the plaintiff believes..
On February 28, the director of one of the legal entities - LLC "Creative Association "Ural Dumplings"- Natalya Tkacheva became, replacing Andrei Rozhkov. Previously, she was responsible for media communications.
To be continued.
Alexey Lyutikov passed away in the midst of court battles among comedians.
On August 10, tragic news spread around the participants of the humorous show “Ural Dumplings”: 42-year-old team director Alexei Lyutikov was found dead in a hotel room in Yekaterinburg. And although no traces of violent death were found on the lifeless body, many fans of “...dumplings” immediately suspected something was wrong. After all, in Lately Lyutikov found himself at the epicenter of a suddenly erupted scandal between participants in a popular TV show.
The news about the death of the director of Ural Dumplings with the cheerful surname Lyutikov made many think. After all, since 2009, this position has been held by Sergei Netievsky, who, along with other participants in the show, has been going on stage to make people laugh for more than twenty years. And suddenly, in the fall of 2015, Alexey Lyutikov unexpectedly replaced him in the leadership position. In the past, he was also a famous cavalry player and, as a captain, led the “Service Entrance” team.
Last October, a huge conflict brewed in the once friendly and close-knit team of comedians. The reason for the disagreement was primarily money, because recently the participants of the “Ural Dumplings” even reached the top of the Forbes list in terms of income. And, apparently, they relaxed, which is why the ratings of their TV shows began to fall - following the results of the last TV season, “...dumplings” sharply lost ground.
The team blamed Netievsky for all the problems. They say that he stopped coping with the duties of a director: he was involved in producing other projects, did not sign financial documents on time, missed deadlines for submitting declarations to tax office. “Ural Dumplings” held a secret vote, as a result of which Sergei lost his bread position. But the demoted boss did not agree with this verdict and sued his former comrades.
- Netievsky is now a big Moscow producer, working on a bunch of projects. He felt cramped in our team. And for God's sake. Svetlakov also left for the capital at one time. But since Netievsky is gone, we need someone who knows this whole kitchen. So we hired Lyutikov,” explained the “dumpling” Sergei Ershov. Sergei NETIEVSKY (with a guitar around his neck) was ready for any tricks to amuse the audience.
Sharpened the corners
They say, new boss began to add fuel to the fire, causing the conflict within the team to flare up with renewed vigor.- Lyutikov is originally from Kursk, but lived in Moscow for many years, served as director and was a personal adviser to the general producer " Comedy Club Production,” one of the team members told us, who asked not to be named. “It was he who drew the guys’ attention to the fact that the fees from their performances were allegedly distributed unfairly. In fact, “...pelmeni” receive money based on their share - each owned ten percent of the company. Only Slava Myasnikov earned more, because, among other things, he is also the author of songs for the show. Well, and Netievsky. Previously, this fact did not bother anyone, but when the popularity of “...dumplings” began to fall, which means that incomes also decreased, people rebelled. In addition, Lyutikov found some other documents where it was stated that the Ural dumplings brand belongs to Netievsky’s company. In general, Alexey aggravated the situation so much that in the end everyone finally quarreled.
Meanwhile, just a month ago, fans of “...dumplings” were discussing the new team director on one of the Internet forums. Many were seriously worried about rumors about financial scandals in which Lyutikov was allegedly involved.
“In his historical homeland (Kursk), Alexey cheated a lot of people out of money,” wrote someone under the nickname Safron (the author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved. -A.V.). “They even wanted to go to Moscow to look for him.” And now he’s great and... continues to throw. I know that debts were paid off for him by people who wrote that Lyutikov was a crystal honest person.
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All fans of quality humor know them by sight.
Be that as it may, a couple of weeks ago the Yekaterinburg court invalidated the vote of the comedian team and returned Netievsky to the position of director. “Pelmeni”, led by Lyutikov, did not agree with this decision and decided to appeal it. The next hearing is scheduled for October. And then suddenly Lyutikov dies...
Alexei’s body was found by a maid at the hotel where he had settled on August 2. He came to Yekaterinburg with the team after a tour in Sochi. And, having dealt with current affairs, instead of going to Moscow to see his wife and two daughters, he bought alcohol and locked himself in his room.
Police arriving at the scene found a dozen empty bottles of alcohol in the room, as well as medications for high blood pressure. Forensic experts named the cause of Lyutikov’s death as “dilated cardiomyopathy.” Simply put, my heart couldn’t stand it. It turned out that Alexey had been experiencing problems with the engine for a long time. Some time ago he suffered a heart attack and became a frequent visitor to the cardiologist's office. The legal battles probably added to the health problems. Surprisingly, none of the current participants in the humorous show wanted to talk about the untimely death of their comrade. Only Netievsky was able to squeeze out a few words:
“It’s very difficult for me now,” admitted Sergei. - Despite all these troubles, Alexey was a friend to all of us. This is a huge tragedy - it breaks my heart. It’s difficult to comment on anything at this moment, sorry.