Nikita Kologrivy

On the night of March 18-19, 2024, in a Novosibirsk bar, while intoxicated, Kologrivy attempted to sexually assault a female bar employee. When she refused, he bit her leg. Kologrivy then attacked two male bar employees who stood up for the woman. On March 21, a Novosibirsk court found Kologrivy guilty of petty hooliganism and sentenced him to seven days of administrative arrest in a special detention facility. The prosecutor's office appealed the ruling, deeming it too lenient, but the court upheld the sentence.

In February 2023, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he criticized actors who had left Russia due to "sanctions." In 2023, he supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine by recording a video message to Russian soldiers participating in the invasion, saying, "We [actors] are grateful that we can safely pursue our creative work, our profession, and you provide this security for us on the front lines," and "Thank you very much for taking our place there." In January 2024, it was reported that Kologrivy had been added to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets database for "public support of Russian aggression" and "deliberate violation of Ukraine's borders" (the actor participated in the filming of the series "Black Spring" in Russian-annexed Crimea).

Assessing his professional abilities, the actor said that "with my roles, I can already compete with every actor in the country" and doesn't see any "worthy competitors" in the Russian film industry. In an interview in February 2023, Kologrivy said he didn't believe Innokenty Smoktunovsky was a better actor than him, and also that he didn't like Smoktunovsky or Alexander Abdulov as actors. Leonid Yarmolnik, for his part, expressed his disagreement with Kologrivy's position, calling the latter a fool.

When asked if he was worried about following in the footsteps of Alexander Petrov, Kologrivy said he wasn't afraid, but rather aspired to it. He said he was already following in the footsteps of Petrov and Danila Kozlovsky, whose popularity in film has been high recently. He also described Danila Kozlovsky as a "fake actor," believing that the latter's role in the film "Soulless" didn't require any special acting skills and could have been played by anyone. In a conversation with blogger Eldar Dzharakhov, Kologrivy expressed a critical opinion of Alexandra Bortich. He noted that, despite her appearances in films and television series, she lacks formal acting training. The actor expressed his desire to work in Hollywood, where, in his words, he would "destroy..."