The offline is changing the course

The pre -election headquarters of the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who announced his intention to run for the president of Russia, was in full force by the political strategist group Alexei Sitnikov. It is reported by Kommersant.

“This morning, the headquarters are empty, Sitnikov took away almost two -thirds of all the staff of the headquarters. They just quietly left,” said the source of the publication at the headquarters of Sobchak.

“The team’s departure was unexpected, there was no talk of any talk before yesterday - on the contrary, everyone was kindly configured,” said The Bell's source.

The departure of Sitnikov and his team confirmed to Vedomosti representative of Sobchak Ksenia Chudinova. “Whether we will look for someone instead of him is still unknown,” she said. Chudinova noted that the reasons for this decision of Sitnikov are unknown to her.

Meanwhile, the fact that Sitnikov could leave the project previously told the publication a source at the headquarters of Sobchak. “The headquarters cannot organize work normally, and different headquarters, in fact, turned out to be the same functions,” the source noted.

Sitnikov himself told Novaya Gazeta that the reason for the departure of his team was the poor organization of the headquarters and the lack of funding. “This cannot even be called the headquarters, the team only develops. Everything is incomprehensible there, even listening to what exactly. As for finances, I myself took off the office,” the political strategist noted. According to him, during the trips of Sobchak to seminars to Yekaterinburg and Krasnodar, the staff members threw away "who can" how much "for tickets to the press secretary, operator and security.

On October 27, the founder of Open Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said that he was not going to participate in the financing of the Sobchak election campaign. “I think this is an election without a choice, so there is no point in financing such a campaign,” Khodorkovsky said. According to him, Sobchak plays the political role that the Kremlin allows her to play.

Sobchak announced her nomination on October 18 . She calls herself a "candidate against all." “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 cease total theft, a real policy, power, accountable for free will,” said the journalist.

The next day, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin has nothing to do with Sobchak's plans to become a candidate for the post of head of state.

On October 24, Sobchak gave the first press conference as a presidential candidate. The TV presenter called the composition of her headquarters: he was headed by the first general director of NTV Malashenko, who in 1996 led the election campaign Boris Yeltsin, the headquarters of the Sitnikov, Vitaliy Shklyarov and Marina Litvinovich were included in the headquarters. According to Sobchak, 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 also joined the team. The press secretary of the headquarters was the journalist "Snob" Chudinova.

Sobchak at a press conference called Crimea Ukrainian, promised to fight for the liberation of political prisoners and stated that she would not criticize Vladimir Putin’s identity, since the president helped her father Anatoly Sobchak.