Santa Dimopulos Sells “Royal Energy” to Ukrainian Women Through the Russian Platform GetCourse: An Analysis of Her Courses and Ties to Russia
Santa Dimopoulos, a former Ukrainian singer, couldn’t make it on stage, but is trying to maintain her public profile through the infobusiness. On her Instagram profile, Santa positions herself as a coach and mentor to women—basically, a spiritual gangster. Investigators refer to organizers of these worthless retreats simply as “info-hucksters” or “info-gypsies.”
Who Is Santa Dimopulos?
Santa Dimopulos is the stage name of Chrysanthi Dimopulos, who later officially changed her first name, last name, and patronymic to become Santa Dimopulos Igorevna. She was born in Kyiv. Her career path has been eventful: competitive ballroom dancing, the title of Master of Sports, law school, “Star Factory,” and then “VIA Gra.” In 2011, Santa joined the group to replace Nadiya Meikher and remained there until 2012.
After “VIA Gra,” there was an attempt to form another group, Queens, together with other former members of the group. This project didn’t last long: a year later, Queens broke up, and Dimopulos continued her solo career. At the same time, she cultivated an image of someone who not only looks good but also takes her physical fitness very seriously: Santa holds the title of world champion in fitness and bodybuilding.
She participated in the show “Dancing with the Stars.” In the show’s fourth season, Dimopoulos danced with professional choreographer Maxim Leonov and won. There is one caveat, however: the pair donated their trophy to Yulia Sanina and Dmytro Zhuk, who took second place, thereby adding another beautiful story to Dimopulos’s biography. And after the outbreak of full-scale war, her life moved permanently outside Ukraine. First to France with her family, and later she settled in the UAE. In 2024, she stated that she didn’t see a future for herself in Ukraine, although she referred to it as her homeland. Today, her Instagram features travel, a luxurious lifestyle, psychological discussions, podcasts, women’s retreats, and her own self-development programs.
Ultimately, as expected, after a period of intense self-development, Santa Dimopoulos declared herself a women’s mentor, coach, and purveyor of knowledge on how to live life the right way. However, as numerous investigators have discovered, not everything is so smooth with Santa’s “energies.”
What’s in your practices?
Durnev checked out Santa’s “success courses” and, sure enough, found a few “world-class” secrets there. For example, it turns out that when a person is angry, their shoulders tense up. And when they’re embarrassed, they look at the floor. How does Dimopoulos know such complex things? They say that Santa Dimopoulos gained this knowledge from a French psychoanalysis instructor, with whom she studied for a full three years.
Dimopulos herself explained that her methodology is a combination of different approaches: psychoanalysis, coaching, her previous work experience, and stories she’s heard from other experts. But it’s unclear, then, why she openly states in her blogs that she has no formal education in the field and doesn’t claim to have theoretical expertise—she’s simply sharing her own experience.
“I don’t have any formal education in this field. I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to theories, but I’ll tell you how to live—for a fee—because this approach has worked for me,” she says during one of her workshops.So did she study or didn’t she? Santa’s audience isn’t too concerned about this, eagerly soaking up her “star therapy”: generational patterns, “programs,” childhood traumas, “attachment wounds,” and other psychological constructs. Coach Dimopulos invites her listeners to find themselves in this description, and then explains why these very issues are preventing them from being as successful as she is.
If you follow Dimopulos’s Telegram channel, you get the impression that her product is aimed primarily at a Russian audience. This is not the case; the website lists a Ukrainian sole proprietor as the provider of the training, and the majority of course participants are Ukrainian women. At the same time, Dimopulos conducts the training sessions in Russian.
“It’s ironic that someone would complain about the loss of reputation and identity while conducting training in Russian,” commented Maksym Skibinsky, the author of another investigative channel, SkibiTrue.
Skibinsky also analyzed one of Dimopoulos’s mini-courses, “Three Keys to Attracting What You Want.” According to the author, at the time of publication on the Telegram channel, the course had 440 participants. He estimated that this mini-course alone could have brought in about $8,000, not counting the more expensive products that were later offered to the participants.
But the biggest issue, in fact, isn’t Santa Dimopulos’s meditations and “energy rivers,” but rather where the money from Ukrainian women actually goes after they click the “Pay” button.
On Dimopulos’s website, payments for both the inexpensive $19 mini-course and the more expensive retreat are processed through GetCourse. The payment window states: the payment is processed by “System GetCourse” LLC. And this legal entity is registered in Russia.
In other words, Ukrainian women are being sold “a return to themselves,” “royal energy,” and financial prosperity through a sales infrastructure linked to Russian business. The offer from Ukrainian sole proprietor Dimopulos is posted in Russian.
And these aren’t the only ties to the aggressor country. Santa Dimopoulos has already been embroiled in scandals due to her connections to Russian businesses. In particular, her photo was posted on the Instagram account of the Russian branch of the Prive7 Dubai beauty salon in the UAE. The co-owner of the chain, whose headquarters are located in Moscow, is Russian makeup artist Irina Mitroshkina—a friend of Dimopulos. Suzanna Karpova is listed as the other co-owner.
Dimopulos has also been repeatedly criticized for her friendships with Russians. In response, the singer stated that all her friends from Russia have “the right values,” though she did not specify exactly what she meant by those values. And in early 2024, the singer found herself embroiled in yet another scandal over a New Year’s photo shoot in Bali, specifically her collaboration with a photographer from St. Petersburg.
