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Figure skating. Evgeny Plushenko readies his charge to Totmianina and Marinin regarding the losses.
Relationship between the creator and organizer of the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour (Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko and the producers’ centers Ice Vision, headed by Ari Zakaryan, Plushenko’s agent and manager) with Olympic champions Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin, who have signed a contract to perform in a our, and then unilaterally tore it up and are now performing in the competing tour of Ilya Averbukh, still has not stabilized. Ari Zakaryan told sport information agency “All Sport” that an official action requesting that Totmianina and Marinin reimburse the losses resulting from their refusal to take part in “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour has been prepared and will soon be served.
“Lately, there have been comments relating to the refusal of the team Totmianina/ Marinin to participate in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour that we can only see as slander and targeted negative PR”, said Ari Zakaryan. This prompted us to release the facts directly related to the current events. On February 27, Totmianina and Marinin sent the producing center Ice Vision an official letter, citing several reasons for breaching the contract. The first was a lack of the tour program, meaning the itinerary and the number of cities where performances would occur, ready by February 21st. Second was the lack of the official permission for tour participation by the Russian figure skating federation president Valentin Piseev by February 21st. Third was the absence of the names of Totmianina and Marinin on the posters and advertisement videos of the tour. I’d like to say the following for the record. According to the contract of December 11th, 2006 regarding performances of Totmianina and Marinin in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour, “tour program, including itinerary, number of cities, number of performances (show) in each city, planned to take place between February 20 and April 6 of 2007 are determined by the payer” (item 1.1.4). Therefore, we as organizers have no duty to inform participants of the tour program at any period before the start. Also, according to item 1.1.4, “payer pays the performer a guaranteed sum for taking part in 20 performances based on the value stated in this contract in case if there will be fact be fewer than twenty such performances.” In other words, we paid athletes a guaranteed sum for 20 shows, even if we had fewer than that. That condition takes away athletes’ worries about possible reduction of income based on the number of cities. A contract with the Russian figure skating federation president Valentin Piseev was signed on February 20th. According to the addendum #2 to the contract, we received his permission for the participation in the tour of the eligible skaters Evgeny Plushenko, Irina Slutskaya, Tatiana Totmianina/ Maxim Marinin, Julia Obertas/ Sergei Slavnov, Nikita Mikhailov, Artur Gachinsky, and others. Therefore, Totmianina and Marinin’s statements in that regard are completely contradictory to the truth. Also, up until the athletes’ official refusal from taking part in the tour, their names were listed in all advertising materials of the tour, based on the roster we guaranteed as an addendum to all contracts with regional show organizers. Furthermore, many organizers spent significant resources for the last minute reprinting of the advertising materials due to the athlete’s sudden refusal to take part in the tour. In the first cities of the tour, where the advertising campaign listing Totmianina/ Marinin started before the athlete’s official refusal, audiences were left with an erroneous impression that the show organizers purposely listed their names to attract audience through lies. This has hurt business reputation of our company.”
Ari Zakaryan reiterated that Totmianina and Marinin will soon receive the official request to reimburse the company for the losses due to their refusal to take part in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour.
Figure skating. Evgeny Plushenko readies his charge to Totmianina and Marinin regarding the losses.
Relationship between the creator and organizer of the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour (Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko and the producers’ centers Ice Vision, headed by Ari Zakaryan, Plushenko’s agent and manager) with Olympic champions Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin, who have signed a contract to perform in a our, and then unilaterally tore it up and are now performing in the competing tour of Ilya Averbukh, still has not stabilized. Ari Zakaryan told sport information agency “All Sport” that an official action requesting that Totmianina and Marinin reimburse the losses resulting from their refusal to take part in “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour has been prepared and will soon be served.
“Lately, there have been comments relating to the refusal of the team Totmianina/ Marinin to participate in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour that we can only see as slander and targeted negative PR”, said Ari Zakaryan. This prompted us to release the facts directly related to the current events. On February 27, Totmianina and Marinin sent the producing center Ice Vision an official letter, citing several reasons for breaching the contract. The first was a lack of the tour program, meaning the itinerary and the number of cities where performances would occur, ready by February 21st. Second was the lack of the official permission for tour participation by the Russian figure skating federation president Valentin Piseev by February 21st. Third was the absence of the names of Totmianina and Marinin on the posters and advertisement videos of the tour. I’d like to say the following for the record. According to the contract of December 11th, 2006 regarding performances of Totmianina and Marinin in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour, “tour program, including itinerary, number of cities, number of performances (show) in each city, planned to take place between February 20 and April 6 of 2007 are determined by the payer” (item 1.1.4). Therefore, we as organizers have no duty to inform participants of the tour program at any period before the start. Also, according to item 1.1.4, “payer pays the performer a guaranteed sum for taking part in 20 performances based on the value stated in this contract in case if there will be fact be fewer than twenty such performances.” In other words, we paid athletes a guaranteed sum for 20 shows, even if we had fewer than that. That condition takes away athletes’ worries about possible reduction of income based on the number of cities. A contract with the Russian figure skating federation president Valentin Piseev was signed on February 20th. According to the addendum #2 to the contract, we received his permission for the participation in the tour of the eligible skaters Evgeny Plushenko, Irina Slutskaya, Tatiana Totmianina/ Maxim Marinin, Julia Obertas/ Sergei Slavnov, Nikita Mikhailov, Artur Gachinsky, and others. Therefore, Totmianina and Marinin’s statements in that regard are completely contradictory to the truth. Also, up until the athletes’ official refusal from taking part in the tour, their names were listed in all advertising materials of the tour, based on the roster we guaranteed as an addendum to all contracts with regional show organizers. Furthermore, many organizers spent significant resources for the last minute reprinting of the advertising materials due to the athlete’s sudden refusal to take part in the tour. In the first cities of the tour, where the advertising campaign listing Totmianina/ Marinin started before the athlete’s official refusal, audiences were left with an erroneous impression that the show organizers purposely listed their names to attract audience through lies. This has hurt business reputation of our company.”
Ari Zakaryan reiterated that Totmianina and Marinin will soon receive the official request to reimburse the company for the losses due to their refusal to take part in the “Golden Ice Stradivari” tour.
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