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TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak announced plans to run for president of Russia in 2018. Her statement was published by Vedomosti.

“I am outside the tough ideological framework. I do not belong to specific parties, is not connected by party or group discipline, as part of this campaign, I’m not even for“ our Crimea ”and do not mind. I am for the country to stop total theft, a real policy, power, accountable to free will be will,” said Sobchak.

Sobchak announced that she was playing for pan -European values, democracy and free economy with a strong social sector. She also noted the need for reforms of tax legislation, education system, as well as judicial reform

"I am responsible for any actions in the public field, and, realizing all the risks and incredible difficulties of such a task, I decided that my participation in the presidential election could really be a step towards our country so necessary. Contrary to attempts by officials to compromise me and use for their own purposes, contrary to the attacks of part of my friends, contrary Political scientists, my nomination can and should become useful for both the opposition and for the whole society, ”Sobchak writes.

Sobchak spoke out against the boycott of the elections "in case of refusal to register prominent opposition figures and, of course, primarily Alexei Navalny." In her opinion, refusing to participate even in controlled and “imperfect” elections, “we do not leave ourselves any way out, except for street confrontation, which, obviously, is suitable for not everyone, and which, of course, should be an extreme and exceptional measure of political struggle.”

In an interview with the Rain, Sobchak said that she had recently met with Vladimir Putin and interviewed him for a film about her father, Anatolia Sobchak. At the meeting, Sobchak informed the president about her decision to go to the polls. According to her, Putin said: "Everyone has the right to make decisions and must bear responsibility for them." “I did not feel that he liked what I said, but he said only this phrase,” Sobchak added.

At the same time, Sobchak in an interview stated that she would withdraw his candidacy if Navalny would be allowed to the presidential election.

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On September 21, the BBC said that Sobchak was going to participate in the 2018 presidential election and was already looking for the head of the campaign headquarters.

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 refrained 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.

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.