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Russia's Tatler magazine made the list of most desirable single women in the country. The list is based on women's fortune and their celebrity status. She is known across Russia as a socialite, TV host and presenter. Ksenia is Russia's No.1 'it girl', an analogue to [[Paris Hilton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/women-4384|title=Russia's most desirable single woman|accessdate=2009-09-23 |date=2009-09-02 |publisher=[[Pravda.ru]]}}</ref> |
Russia's Tatler magazine made the list of most desirable single women in the country. The list is based on women's fortune and their celebrity status. She is known across Russia as a socialite, TV host and presenter. Ksenia is Russia's No.1 'it girl', an analogue to [[Paris Hilton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/women-4384|title=Russia's most desirable single woman|accessdate=2009-09-23 |date=2009-09-02 |publisher=[[Pravda.ru]]}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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2004 - 20012 Sobchak was an host of the reality show Dom-2 on the TNT TV channel.<ref>http://themoscownews.com/business/20120702/189908575.html</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:01, 18 August 2013
Kseniya Sobchak | |
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 Kseniya Sobchak imitating Yulia Tymoshenko's trademark hairdo | |
| Born | Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak (Russian: Ксе́ния Анато́льевна Собча́к) November 5, 1981 St.Petersburg, Russia |
| Partner | Maxim Vitorgan (2013–present) |
| Parent | Anatoly Sobchak |
Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak (Template:Lang-ru), born November 5, 1981 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (present day Saint Petersburg, Russia). Russian TV anchor, journalist, socialite, and member of political opposition. Sobchak became known to the wider public as a host of the reality show "Dom-2" on the Russian channel TNT. She is sometimes described as Russia's "It girl"[1] and "Russia's Paris Hilton".[2] However, lately she transitioned from a celebrity socialite into a prominent political activist, and has been protesting alleged electoral fraud by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Sobchak is an anchor at an independent TV channel Dozhd and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council.
Biography
She is a second daughter of the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and Lyudmila Narusova, a Russian politician.
As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Hermitage Museum art school. In 1998, Ksenia left the school attached to Herzen University, and enrolled at the Saint Petersburg State University (Department of International Relations). In 2001 she moved to Moscow and enrolled in the International Relations program at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2002 she enrolled in a masters program at the department of politics at the same university.
Sobchak acted in the 2004 film Thieves and Prostitutes.[3]
She is also known as a clothes designer and promoter of rubber boots. In June 2006 she created her first collection of such boots.
In 2004, Sobchak was identified as a candidate to become Russia's first national Space Tourist, flying to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz rocket. She may have undertaken some initial tests and cosmonaut training, but the project came to nothing.
She also acted against the newly produced law that prohibits sharing of private lives of Russian celebrities without their permission.[citation needed]
On 28 December 2008, Sobchak was on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to New York when she and other passengers determined that the pilot was drunk prior to take-off. Sobchak used her socialite status to call Aeroflot representatives and remove the pilot from the cockpit.[4]
Russia's Tatler magazine made the list of most desirable single women in the country. The list is based on women's fortune and their celebrity status. She is known across Russia as a socialite, TV host and presenter. Ksenia is Russia's No.1 'it girl', an analogue to Paris Hilton.[5]
Career
TV
2004 - 20012 Sobchak was an host of the reality show Dom-2 on the TNT TV channel.[6]
Political background and activities
Sobchak's father, Anatoly, helped Vladimir Putin launch his career in politics when he was the mayor of St. Petersburg. Putin then helped Anatoly flee Russia when he was wanted on corruption charges.[7] According to the Moscow News, "Putin's reported affection for the Sobchak family is widely believed to give Ksenia Sobchak a protected status, which may also explain her boldness", such as her encounter in October 2011 with Vasily Yakemenko, the controversial leader of the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement, when she reprimanded him for eating at an expensive restaurant in Moscow and published a video of the encounter on the internet.[7] However, less than two months later her further actions have caused her relationship with Putin to look more questionable. After the parliament elections held on December 4, 2011, which are known for the large number of alleged fraud reports, Sobchak joined the protest rallies held in Russia as a response to the alleged electoral frauds.[8] She also took part in the campaign against Putin's re-election, working as an observer during the president elections held on March 4, 2012. She was one of the Russian protest leaders targeted by the Investigative Committee of Russia on June 12, 2012 when her apartment in Moscow was entered and searched.[9]
Videos
- 2007: Dance (Потанцуй) (With Timati)
References
- ^ Mills, Laura; Vasilyeva, Nataliya (June 14, 2012). "Ksenia Sobchak: Russian It Girl's path from parties to protests". Toronto Star. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- ^ Barnard, Anne (July 27, 2008). "Raucous Russian Tabloids Thrive". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
- ^ "Kseniya Sobchak - Biography". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved March 6, 2009.
- ^ Blomfield, Adrian (February 3, 2009). "Aeroflot says drunk pilot 'no big deal'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ "Russia's most desirable single woman". Pravda.ru. September 2, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- ^ http://themoscownews.com/business/20120702/189908575.html
- ^ a b Splurge scandal at restaurant, The Moscow News, retrieved 15/12/2011
- ^ Ellen Barry (March 17, 2012). "Russia's Scandalous 'It Girl' Remakes Herself as an Unlikely Face of Protest". The New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
- ^ Andrew Meier (July 3, 2012). "Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin's Side". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
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