The election headquarters Sobchak will head Malashenko

The election headquarters of the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak in the presidential election will be headed by media manager Igor Malashenko. Sobchak said this at the first press conference as a candidate, the rain television channel is maintained.

Malashenko is one of the founders and the first general director of the NTV television company, in the 1996 presidential election, he was one of the leaders of the campaign of Boris Yeltsin.

According to Sobchak, political strategists Alexei Sitnikov, Vitaly Shklyarov and Marina Litvinovich will also include the headquarters. Sitnikov will lead the offline reference, and Shklyarov will be responsible for the campaign on the Internet. Lawyer Elena Lukyanova, screenwriter and TV presenter Avdotya Smirnova, journalist Anton Krasovsky joined the Sobchak team. The press secretary of the headquarters will be the journalist "Snoba" Ksenia Chudinova.

The Sobchak headquarters in Moscow will be opened on the Savvinskaya embankment. The journalist promised that from next week there would be "passing discussions."

Malashenko’s wife, journalist Bozhena Rynsk, wrote on Facebook that her husband’s decision was a surprise and could lead to a divorce. “Guys, I’m in shock. I don’t have comments. This is Igor’s decision. Since we have been trying to reproduce a common child for three years, I don’t want to disperse with him, we are 6 years old together. But I have to comprehend everything. I don’t change my political position. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it yet. I thought he was joking. And I dismissed. Nezhdanik,” writes Rynsk.

The TV presenter called the annexation of Crimea by Russia a violation of the Budapest memorandum of the nuclear status of Ukraine. “From the point of view of international law, Crimea is Ukrainian. Point. After that, you need to talk,” Sobchak emphasized.

Meanwhile, when an announcement of the nomination, Sobchak said that she was "not for" our Crimea "and do not mind." In 2014, the journalist supported the annexation of the peninsula. “I believe that if Crimea is bloodless to be our own, then it will be a big victory of Putin,” she wrote then on Twitter.

At a press conference, Sobchak said that he would refrain from criticism of the personality of Vladimir Putin, since the president helped her father Anatoly Sobchak with treatment abroad and "actually saved life."

The journalist also said that she would seek the release of political prisoners. Sobchak did not specify who she had in mind, but before the press conference, the journalists were handed out to reports from convicts in Swamp case, activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, director Kirill Serebrennikov and RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov.

Sobchak thanked Mikhail Khodorkovsky for his readiness to support her. On Monday, Khodorkovsky opposed the boycott of the elections and called for voting for “any acceptable candidate”, except for the “predetermined winner”.

Sobchak announced her nomination on October 18. She calls herself a "candidate against all."

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.