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Ilya in the third person:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0kb7mYbQxm_3SOW_cK3caA

You should probably listen to this with the sound on. He wasn't too particularly drunk. In the video, he's trying to reason with Travis Lee Bailey, a former lawyer expat from Washington, D.C. and tell him to calm down. What happened was Ilya Novikov asked Travis Lee Bailey, who he figured he might know a thing or two about the law, whether his dual-citizen Russian citizen friend, who's considering coming to Russia, would get in trouble over here for having served in a foreign military back in the early 2000s. The lawyer freaked out and accused Ilya of "trying to entrap him" as he freaked out in public in the bar and demanded that Ilya be kicked out. Ilya left on his own without being kicked out. Then this foolish lawyer proceeded to film the video, obviously muting the sound so as not to point to the fact that Ilya was attempting to reason with him and clear up the misunderstanding. Upon researching the lawyer (and not a good one since he didn't get consent to film Ilya, as required by Russian law), it became apparent that the lawyer, Travis Lee Bailey, is a paranoid schizophrenic wannabe spy. He literally took photos of minimum wage requirements and tried to pass it off as "secret information." He was mentioned by a few media sources, including The Salt Lake Tribune. The article can be found at https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/05/08/would-be-spy-landed-job-at-utah-agency-that-oversees-state-computer-systems-says-he-used-it-to-find-and-send-documents-to-russia/.

Playing the video with sound will demonstrate Ilya Novikov attempting to reason with a man that has obvious psychological issues. Ilya Novikov was not aware of Mr. Bailey's psychological issues or past at the time.