Ksenia Sobchak published her election program. It's called "123 Hard Steps"

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who plans to participate in the presidential elections in Russia in 2018, has published an election platform. This happened during her speech at the congress of the Civil Initiative party, where it was decided to nominate her.

It is called "123 Difficult Steps" and consists of four sections - "Domestic Policy", "Economic Development", "Social Policy" and "Foreign Policy".

In the section "Domestic Policy" it is said, in particular, that Russia should strive for "common European laws and values"; laws that complicate the manifestation of political initiative and restrict people on various grounds should be repealed or changed in the country. According to Sobchak, the country should move from a "super-presidential republic" to a "full-format parliamentary democracy", for which it is necessary to amend the Constitution.

In the economic part of the program, we are talking about the phased privatization of "large state corporations and state monopolies", "a radical change in the nature of regulation of most industries and services." The program also talks about cutting spending on "defense, police forces and the state apparatus" to release up to 1.5 trillion rubles for "social and other needs."

Sobchak's team proposes to reduce the rate of insurance payments for employers, reduce income tax and increase the tax on mining, extending it to "all raw industries."

In the social part of the program, it is proposed, in particular, to reform the pension system, stop the “commercialization” of education, “dramatically” reform the system of psychiatric care, legalize substitution therapy for people with drug addiction and decriminalize the small-scale circulation of cannabis. Ministry of Culture Ksenia Sobchak proposes to abolish.

In the field of foreign policy, it is proposed, among other things, to stop the “hybrid war” in eastern Ukraine and “immediately publish the lists of all those who died in undeclared wars.”

Amendments. Initially, in the news, the Civic Initiative party was mistakenly called the Civic Platform. We apologize to readers.

• The presidential elections in the Russian Federation will be held in the Russian Federation on March 18, 2018. In addition to Ksenia Sobchak, incumbent President Vladimir Putin, opposition leader Alexei Navalny (the CEC promises not to register him due to a criminal record), one of the founders of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky, and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky announced their intention to participate in the elections. Pavel Grudinin, the director of the Lenin state farm, is likely to become a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.