The Kitchen Maid That Will Rule The State
On October 18, 2017 Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian TV anchor, journalist and socialite, announced that she would be running for presidency. She claimed that since the “none of the above” option had been removed from the ballots, she would be representing rejection of all presidential candidates. Soback’s call to vote for her instead of boycotting the elections altogether sparked a heated debated among Russian liberals. Yet, it is not her political program (or, rather, the absence of it) but her gender that made Sobchak the focus of media and public attention.