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Princess and dreams
TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak is going to participate in the 2018 presidential election, BBC reports . She is already looking for the head of the campaign headquarters.
According to the BBC, Sobchak proposed to head his campaign headquarters, in particular, to the Director General of the Rain Channel Natalya Sindeeva, ex-head of the rain, Mikhail Zygarya, creator of the ANTODDDRA Foundation Anton Krasovsky, ex-head of the human rights department of Maria Baronova, political technology Stanislava Belkovsky and journalist Roman Super. However, they all refused the TV presenter. They also confirm the BBCs on the steel that they received such proposals from Sobchak
The TV presenter was invited to nominate the presidential administration, the sources of the BBC said. At the same time, Sobchak did not promise funding, so it is not known what means she was going to lead the election campaign. “At the meeting, she tells what an important story this is, that the woman will compete for the presidential post, as important for the development of the country,” said one of those to whom the TV presenter offered the post of head of her headquarters. “At the same time, Sobchak emphasizes that her campaign should not be political.”
The presidential administration refrain from official comments. "Participation of Sobchak in the presidential election is considered as one of the options for the campaign," a source close to the presidential administration confirmed. The former federal official, who also asked for anonymity, said the BBC that no one is going to prevent Sobchak’s nomination in the Kremlin, but this can only happen by its own decision.
Sobchak herself did not confirm that she would go to the polls, but did not deny it either. The TV presenter called the information that she will take part in the elections and that it was agreed with the Kremlin, "a provocation related to another project." “I have a project, it is journalistic, but it is connected with politics too. I want to talk about it when I want to talk about it,” Sobchak said. She did not specify the content of the project, noting only that she discussed it with Sindeeva.
On September 1, Vedomosti reported that the Kremlin is selected a female candidate to participate in the presidential election. According to sources, the presidential administration examines 5-7 candidates. One of the sources close to the Kremlin called Sobchak an ideal candidate . “Smart, bright, interesting, but not in everything corresponding to the image of a typical Russian woman, the question is whether she will solve,” the newspaper quoted him.
Sobchak regarded this publication as "a stuffing for discrediting." “I am an independent person and with any“ Apeshechka ”(presidential administration. - Ed.) And other hell has never been seen in relations and I will not be. What is very proud of,” the journalist wrote on Instagram.