32 Facts About Ksenia Sobchak

Ksenia Sobchak was the Civic Initiative's candidate for the 2018 Russian presidential election.

Ksenia Sobchak has described herself as being of part Jewish heritage.

In 1998, Ksenia Sobchak left the school attached to Herzen University, and enrolled at the Saint Petersburg State University.

In 2001, Ksenia Sobchak moved to Moscow and enrolled in the International Relations program at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Ksenia Sobchak became famous in 2004, as a host of the reality show Dom-2.

Ksenia Sobchak left the show in 2012, because the show's lowbrow orientation became incongruent with her political activism.

In 2010, Ksenia Sobchak became a host of the TV program Freedom of Thought on the state-run Channel 5.

Ksenia Sobchak soon left the program, since, according to her, it turned into a never-ending discussion of public utilities maintenance.

Since 2011, Ksenia Sobchak has hosted the program Ksenia Sobchak Live on the independent channel TV Rain and Top Model po-russki on Muz-TV.

In 2007, Ksenia Sobchak recorded the song 'Dance with me ' with Russian rapper Timati, as well as a music video.

On 28 December 2008, Ksenia Sobchak was on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to New York City when she and other passengers determined that the pilot was drunk prior to take-off.

Ksenia Sobchak is known across Russia as a socialite, TV host and presenter.

Ksenia Sobchak was Russia's No 1 "it girl", an analogue to Paris Hilton.

Ksenia Sobchak built a close relationship with Putin, in particular, and in 1991 Anatoly helped launch Putin's career in politics when he was the mayor of Saint Petersburg.

Ksenia Sobchak felt that political positions and opposition served only as a pretext for realizing her ambitions and declared her movement non-political, aimed at providing help and support to young people.

Ksenia Sobchak made policy statements and issued club cards to the most active participants, providing free access to nightclubs, discounts, and other privileges.

Political scientist and contemporary art collector Marat Gelman suggested that Ksenia Sobchak could have set her sights on a political career in United Russia and was gathering her supporters ahead of the 2007 Russian legislative election.

Ksenia Sobchak was very decent, played a big role in my own destiny.

Ksenia Sobchak declared her candidacy in the Russian presidential election 2018 on 18 October 2017.

Ksenia Sobchak was the Civic Initiative's candidate for the 2018 Russian presidential election.

Some skeptics accused Ksenia Sobchak of being a spoiler to undermine Alexei Navalny; every recent election for the presidency has featured a prominent liberal candidate handpicked by the Kremlin.

On 26 October 2022, Russian media reported that Ksenia Sobchak would be detained as part of an investigation into the alleged extortion of 11 million rubles from the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, by Ksenia Sobchak's director Kirill Sukhanov.

Lithuanian authorities confirmed that Ksenia Sobchak had entered Lithuania and was entitled to stay for 90 days without a visa because she was an Israeli citizen.

Lithuanian border officials said that Ksenia Sobchak had arrived on an Israeli passport, while Ksenia Sobchak called the case an attack on her editorial team.

Ksenia Sobchak took part in the campaign against Putin's re-election, working as an observer during the presidential elections held on 4 March 2012.

Ksenia Sobchak was one of the Russian protest participants targeted by the Investigative Committee of Russia on 12 June 2012, when her apartment in Moscow was entered and searched.

Ksenia Sobchak is of the opinion that, having annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Russia violated the 1994 Budapest Memorandum; she claimed on 24 October 2017 that "Under these agreements, we agreed that Crimea is Ukrainian, which is the most important for me".

Ksenia Sobchak stressed that she did not consider the issue with Crimea resolved.

On 24 February 2022, Ksenia Sobchak voiced opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, writing that "We the Russians will be dealing with the consequences of today for many more years".

Ksenia Sobchak is an actor, known for Mobius, Bite the Dust and Dreamfish.

Ksenia Sobchak married theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov on 13 September 2019.

In 2015, Ksenia Sobchak said that if there was ever the possibility of political persecution against her, she had thought about emigration or getting an Israeli passport, but would prefer the United States where she could find a Russian-speaking community:.