Lady Candidate in Mtsensk district

During the tour of Ksenia Sobchak on the Black Earth, supporters for applause invited her to become a governor

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Today, Ksenia Sobchak is visiting Orel, and yesterday inspected Kursk. Supporters, opponents and just curious chicken came to see her. From the place to the quarry, the candidate demonstrated knowledge of the local agenda: “It is a great difficulty to get to schools, I know we will talk about this today,” she said, having accepted flowers from the employees of her own headquarters on the occasion of Valentine's Day. Kursk, according to Sobchak, is of great importance for her: he gave a good percentage of signatures in her support.

Sobchak upset Grudinin headquarters

The chief of her Kursk headquarters Nadezhda Chernikova was a year and a half ago in the center of the scandal related just with the collection of signatures. In 2016, she worked for the Patriots of Russia and was engaged in the extension of the ex-governor (and at the peak of her career-vice-president of Russia) Alexander Rutsky to the regional Duma. But during the campaign she stated that the signature sheets were fake and left, slamming the door. The return of Rutsky to Kursk in this way did not take place, and the “waking up conscience” and (more likely) the pressure of the regional administration tried to explain what happened. This time, when collecting signatures for Sobchak, there were no such problems.

Sobchak was met not only by journalists and supporters, but also by the representative of the headquarters of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin, ex-deputy of the regional Duma Alexander Sysoev. Scattering in compliments - "It is impossible to fall in love with you!" - He asked who she would support in the event of a second round between Putin and the Candidate of the Communist Party. The answer was unlikely to satisfy him. “There will be no second round on these“ seemingly elections ”. In such elections, only one candidate will win, his name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, ”the television journalist snapped.

Inspectorate in the city

Sobchak began a walk around the city with her supporters by visiting Red Square. There is a local hot point - the Stalinist building, which is an architectural monument, with the Central restaurant on the ground floor, which is now redone under a network grocery store. This alteration caused a wave of indignation in Kursk, and even the well-known blogger-urbanist Ilya Varlamov posted a photo of the passing reconstruction with a comment about the “cut wings of the Stalinist Empire”.

The representative of the Communists asked Sobchak who she would support in the second round - Putin or Gudinin. “There will be no second round on these“ seemingly elections ”,” she upset him

True, later it turned out that the Stalin Empire is a continuous remake made of drywall. But for a city, which has lost many historical buildings in recent years, this reconstruction was the last straw that caused a wave of protest. True, neither Sobchak nor journalists with activists were allowed into the building itself, and I had to rally on the street.

Then the candidate decided to try out local public transport and went to a tram stop. In half an hour, spent in anticipation of the tram, the locals managed to tell her how badly he walks and, of course, make a selfie with a star.

The last point was a school in a new sleeping area, where recently parents stood in line to write children in first grade. But in the place of Sobchak, officials were already waiting for, who promptly reported on the movements of the star guest. They were fully armed: the residents' claims about the lack of places in kindergartens and huge queues were answered by statistics-it seems like there are a lot of children in groups, 50 people each, but half of them did not go there.

New post for a TV presenter

Having walked around Kursk, Ksenia Sobchak went to meet with voters. The conference room was crowded. First of all, reporters, in the second - youth and supporters. The remaining places (including in the doorway) were simply curious: pensioners and even mothers with strollers. While everyone was waiting for Sobchak’s exit, the chief of the local headquarters suggested rehearsing a greeting - raising signs and shouting “Against everyone!” The guests responded with an unstable choir, after which they invited everyone to come to the headquarters and sign up with volunteers, promising everyone who came to a “fashionable sweatshirt”.

On the site of Sobchak, officials were already waiting, who promptly reported on the movements of the star guest. They were fully armed: residents about the lack of places in kindergartens and huge queues were answered with statistics

Sobchak herself met with great enthusiasm. She talked a little about Putin and bombed Russian mercenaries in Syria, after which she offered to move on to questions from the audience. The volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters asked why Sobchak did not want to support this oppositionist and why he works to increase the appearance .

The pensioner from the hall was indignant: “Where did you get information about our military in Syria? I also monitor and watch the news, listen to the radio, but I have never heard this anywhere! ”

So he reacted to the words of Sobchak, who expressed regret: people do not know significantly what exactly is happening in Syria and how our citizens died there. She noted that the country's main enemy is not Putin, but human indifference.

The applause tore off the proposal to make Sobchak as the governor of the Kursk region instead of Alexander Mikhailov, for 18 years now a permanently located at the post. But she decided not to encourage the chicken and refused such ambitions.

Further, local issues were no longer raised, giving way to conversations about education in the country and the identity of the ex-Ombudsman Sergey Kovalev , who first agreed to be a confidant of Sobchak, and then refused.

On Thursday, Sobchak visits an eagle. Her program - as in Kursk: first a meeting with an asset and supporters, in the evening - with voters.