"I don't expect hell"

Igor Malashenko about presidential ambitions Ksenia Sobchak

The election headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak is looking for specialists and updates the team after the departure of the political strategist Alexei Sitnikova. The Radio Liberty in the program "Faces to the event" was stated by the famous media manager and political consultant Igor Malashenko. Now Malashenko and his colleagues are developing the strategy of the election presidential campaign Ksenia Sobchak.

- When your wife, journalist Bozhena Rynsk, entered the big policy in 2011-2012, her life was turned into hell. NTV correspondents guarded her at the entrance to the entrance, arranged provocations, you had to protect your beloved woman, literally rush to cameras. Do you have any fears that your life will also turn into hell if you are now playing against the authorities?

- There may be problems. Perhaps they will be. Will it be called hell, I do not know. Well, what can I tell you ... I am not young, and as Dante wrote about hell, "here it is necessary that the soul is firm, here fear should not give advice." Therefore, if fear gives you the advice, it means that you need to fall off just immediately, because you cannot fulfill your function. In addition, I do not consider Ksenia Sobchak how, I don’t know, a fiery revolutionary, which will build barricades in one form or another, call for a revolution and so on. On the contrary, I see a force in Sobchak, which is able to bring some changes, but without these revolutionary bursts without these. Therefore, I honestly do not expect hell.

- The holiday of Navalny Sobchak ruined, announcing his political ambitions. Will you somehow restore relations with him? Or today is he a competitor who needs to be pulled far to the side?

- Navalny another. This is a person of squares, this is a person who is able to lead the masses.

- Is that good?

- This is bad!

- Why?

One person can never steer a country in the right direction

- This is bad. Because when you get out the masses, you can overthrow the authorities, but only then you do not know what to do with it. Or you know that you can do only one thing - in fact, take the dictator's place and steer the country in the direction that you consider correct. And one person can never steer the country in the right direction.

- Before we started the campaign, but already a scandal, political strategist Alexei Sitnikov left you. I complained that there was no money, "the confusion reigns", "collect the tables, there is not even a printer - and so in everything, everything is incomprehensible, and the whole campaign was invented on the knee."

-Firstly, the decision to part with Sitnikov was made personally by the candidate, Ksenia Sobchak. He did not go anywhere, he was offered to leave the headquarters, which happened. Ksenia is quite decisive, I will not say the authoritarian, but if she made some decision, she will insist that this decision is implemented.

- You have been in the shade for many years. What prompted you to return to big policy? Only work with Ksenia Sobchak or something else?

- One appearance of Ksenia Sobchak in this arena and her statement that she will run for president has changed the situation. In any case, that part of our society, which does not give a damn, reacts to this very lively. Who is positive, who is negative, but this is already a political effect. Of course, this is the very beginning, but this means that she entered this path. In my opinion, it will not come down for a long time from this path. Politics is generally such a thing that can be done all my life, and I think that for her this is a long distance.

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