Talk:Ksenia Sobchak

message: The article about Ksenia Sobchak was translated incorrectly. There are many mistakes in terms of grammar and style.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.58.191.37 (talk) 18:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Copied from  Wikipedia:User experience feedback. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:40, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ksenia Sobchak

message: On 15 January an IP editor added two paragraphs on accusations of corruption against Kseniya's father Anatoly. On 8 February another IP editor tried to delete it. paragraphs were as follows:
:On January 13, 2015, American channel PBS showed a Frontline Documentary "Putin's Way". In the first half of the documentary, there was an elaborate discussion of the corrupt business transactions that occurred in the Mayor's office under Anatoly Sobchak, father of Kseniya Sobchak. Principal state Investigator who was delegated to examine the embezzlement of state funds by Anatoly Sobchak was removed from his position and the case was closed.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/putins-way/ The Investigator was interviewed by the Frontline staff and he cites that Anatoly Sobchak embezzled $1.5 billion rubles during his term as a Mayor of St. Petersburg.http://www.zaks.ru/new/archive/view/83713 A team of 20 state investigators was in charge of reviewing illegal transactions of Anatoly Sobchak http://www.zaks.ru/new/archive/view/83713
:Kseniya Sobchak has always maintained that her father was an honest man and a true liberal. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, she has been dodging questions about the accusations of corruption against her family.
This needs to be discussed.-- Toddy1 (talk) 21:16, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, yes. Not mentioning that the old case against her father was officially dropped and considered politically motivated. As about another segment I removed ("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...") is also hardly belongs to this BLP, and frankly, the claim about "special status" contradict facts (the incident with her apartment being raided, etc.). My very best wishes (talk) 18:51, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

text: After looking more, I think that Toddy1 was probably right and partially self-reverted. If others want to fix it, they are welcome. My very best wishes (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

text: Just to clarify, here is how she explained why she is not going to criticize Putin during the elections: "На пресс-конференции Собчак сказала, что воздержится от критики личности Владимира Путина, поскольку президент помог ее отцу Анатолию Собчаку с лечением за границей и "фактически спас жизнь". . Hence I think the story about the alleged embezzlement of funds by her father and others is becoming relevant to the page. My very best wishes (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: That her father was accused of corruption

message: This should be a separate section. As sources tell , she started this campaign after consulting with Putin, and there were numerous claims (such as here) that they did it in order to make the elections look more legitimate and attract more people to vote, and also possibly to make the opposition look ridiculous, given her reputation as host of Dom-2... My very best wishes (talk) 14:00, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: But she possibly will not be even registered as a candidate after the exodus of Kremlin-connected political technologists from her team. Just to put this to a certain perspective, there were only 3  independent presidential candidates who harshly criticized the Kremlin's administration during last 16 years: Ivan Rybkin, Boris Nemtsov (he was also regarded by many in 1990s as the probable successor of Yeltsin), and Alexei Navalny. All of them have been eliminated from the participation, one way or another. My very best wishes (talk) 16:38, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Elections