Daughter of Putin’s Mentor Declares Interest in 2018 Russian Presidential Election

Blue blooded daughter of former mayor of St Petersburg in the 1990’s Ksenia Sobchak said on Wednesday that she will run for the highest office in Russia in the upcoming March 2018 election.


The socialite and journalist whose father. Anatoly Sobchak, was said to to be President Putin’s mentor posted in a campaign video on her website that its time for a new leadership in Russia.


In the video, the "Russia's Paris Hilton" stated that children born when Putin first came to power in 2000 will be eligible to vote in the 2018 Russian election. She decided to run because she is tired of seeing same politicians year after year. Turning 35 makes her eligible to contest within the Russian constitution mandate that presidential aspirants must be not less than 35 years old.


“I decided to exercise that right because I am against all of those (candidates) who usually exercise that right,” she said. “When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia. Children who were born that year will go and vote themselves this year. Just think about that.”




The TV personality commended Alexi Navalny’s organized anti Kremlin protests. Navalny has expressed his desire to run against Putin in nest year’s election but may be largely put off by court instances against his eligibility.


In the wake of rumors that Sobchak was going to run against Putin, Navalny last month accused her of being Putin’s puppet. He alleged that the Kremlin would use Sobchak to give the March 2018 election some semblance of free election in a bid to deceive the unsuspecting Russian public.


Sobchak was being drawn into “this fairly loathsome Kremlin game that goes by the title of: ‘Let’s put a liberal laughing-stock up for the elections in order to distract attention,'” said Navalny


Sobchak told Dozhd (Rain) TV channel she had informed Putin of her intention to contest. She mentioned that Putin does not seem to like the idea. The Kremlin had always maintained that she is not restricted by any law if she choose to run for Presidency.


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President Putin is yet to declare his intention to run for fourth term  in office he first won seventeen years ago. But when he does it is widely expected that he will be reelected with less difficulty.


Ksenia has been active in Russian opposition politics since 2012. She was targeted and arrested and detained. She  consistently shows up at opposition events and criticized Putin’s government on social media.


She came to stardom after her graduation from MGIMO university in Moscow and hosted the national reality TV program Dom 2.


The "Russia's Paris Hilton" is fascinated by fashion. Her Instagram account with 5.2 million followers shows her in numerous photographs spotting designer clothes and at various socialites events.


Ksenia’s father, a former mayor of Russia’s second largest city St Petersburg, employed President Putin then as an official in the city Hall in 1990. Anatoly Sobchak the reformist died in 2000. Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova, Ksenia’s mother was elected in 2012 a member of the 178- member Federation Council, Russia upper house of parliament.

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