Representatives of the "high -tech business" will be financed by Sobchak.

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak , who declared intention to participate in the presidential election, said that her election campaign was financed by representatives of the "high -tech business". At the same time, she intends to attract funds from them through the crowdfunding platform.

“I can’t say that the money that is collected today at the campaign is enough to conduct an extensive campaign, this is not so. Businessmen who are not related to the state and some oligarchic structures help. These are people who are engaged in medium, large business not based on privatized enterprises. We are talking about high -tech business in particular, therefore we are in the process of collecting these means,” - - - Sobchak said at a meeting with the inhabitants of Yekaterinburg (quote for TASS).

However, she did not name the approximate size of the budget of her election campaign. “Everything will depend on how much it will be collected through crowdfunding, through businessmen. The activity of the campaign headquarters in the Russian regions will depend on the collected funds, as this is the most expensive part of the campaign,” Sobchak explained, adding that she hopes to “cover all Russian millionaire cities with her prey campaign.”

Sobchak suggested holding a new referendum in Crimea

During a meeting with journalists and her supporters in Yekaterinburg, Sobchak said that in the Crimea, which became part of Russia in the spring of 2014, according to the results of the plebiscite, a new independent referendum should take place.

"Russia violated international obligations, this is the main point of reference. Russian people live in the Crimea, there are many of them. <...> We cannot treat them as subjects of geopolitics. The policy that is not for people is bad," she explained (a quote for "Interfax" ).

“I see a way out of a crisis and unfair situation through a new referendum that implies different points of view,” she added. Sobchak also stated that she would not be campaigned in the Crimea.

The other day, the Kremlin was called "the wrongly and form" Sobchak statement about the Ukrainian Crimea , made by her during the first press conference on her nomination to the president. At the same time, the presidential administration found it difficult to say whether they would register the host as a candidate after such words.

“This is a wrong statement in essence and form,” Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on October 25. According to him, from the point of view of international law, de jure and de facto Crimea is an integral part of Russia. “The discussion of the territorial and sovereign affiliation of Crimea is not subject to discussion in any way and with anyone,” the head of the Kremlin press service snapped.

Earlier, Sobchak’s statement on the Crimea was caused by a flurry of criticism from Russian officials. At the same time, lawyers even talked about the possible prosecution of the leading liability if signs of extremism are found in her words. The head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov recalled that in Russia more than 20 people have become defendants in criminal cases for such statements.

Sobchak will not criticize Putin during the election campaign

Sobchak during the election campaign does not intend to personally criticize the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. As explained by the chief political expert of her headquarters Stanislav Belkovsky, this is the own decision of the TV presenter.

“She will not criticize him personally. She will voice the theses, make a program that is anti -Putin in essence,” he explained (quote for RBC ). The presence of such a program is the fact of criticism, Belkovsky explained.

“Entering the polemic on the topic“ What Putin did, we are distracted from the main thing - and what, in fact, we offer? We must explain to the people that the problem is not in Putin, but in ourselves, in our brains and stereotypes. Our slavery was not created by Putin, but we ourselves, ”he continued.

According to Belkovsky, the rejection of the President’s strict criticism is the most correct decision in the opposition candidate campaign. “Firstly, this is the dep downit of our brain, and secondly, it testifies to the high moral level of the candidate. If a person close to me became my rival in the elections, I would also not“ wet it, ”Belkovsky summed up.

On the eve of the opposition, Alexei Navalny, for the first time, commented on the statement by Sobchak, which announced his presidential ambitions and intention to participate in the elections of the head of state in March 2018.

“I have the main and only comment regarding its nomination. Ksenia Sobchak, being a Russian citizen over 35 years old and not in places of imprisonment, can put forward his candidacy in the elections,” the politician said.

Navalny also said that, being under arrest, he got acquainted with a letter from Sobchak, in which she announced his intention to participate in the elections. “My last name in the letter is mentioned four times, and Putin’s last name is quite interesting. Thank you for remembering me. But I can’t repay the same. There are candidates of Zyuganov, Yavlinsky and others. If I need to talk about them, I will talk,” the oppositionist added.

At the same time, Navalny emphasized that in the upcoming elections he is interested in "one candidate, whose name is Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich." “He is my opponent. He is the largest corrupt official in the country. He is the person who steals the future of Russia. I am going to these elections to fight him,” summed up the head of the Corruption Fund.