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...As a ball of fire erupts, a woman filming the scene screams: “We’re leaving tomorrow! We’re not staying here!”...
...He arrived in Moscow in late 2017, just in time to see Vladimir Putin re-elected with his biggest landslide yet. I arrived around the same time, to take up my first job as a reporter on the ground....
...Dvorkovich remained in Russia and won re-election to Fide in August, saying he had taken “a strong position on the tragic events in Ukraine.”...
...“We’re the last bastion of freedom, honesty, and justice.”...
...“You can’t be afraid all the time,” said Ksenia Fadeeva, head of the foundation in Tomsk, the city where Mr Navalny was poisoned in August....
...“It’s like they’re saying, this one set it all up, and here he is sitting eating chicken noodles with this suspicious foreigner while the ordinary people are in jail.”...
...Even Ksenia Sobchak, 38, a TV personality who was a key youth figure in the Bolotnaya protests and who ran against Putin in 2018, admits that it can be smarter to “stay in the shadows”....
...You’re not picking her to be the president. You’re just using a legal and peaceful way to say, ‘Enough! I’ve had it!’” she wrote....
...Ksenia Sobchak, an opposition-minded TV presenter and daughter of Mr Putin’s political mentor, also plans to run, though many see her as a Kremlin-sanctioned spoiler....
...Russian TV presenter and socialite Ksenia Sobchak says she will run for president next year in an ostensible challenge to Vladimir Putin that is likely to split the opposition....
...A re-elected Mr Putin is then likely to dismiss the hapless Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister and appoint a fresh-faced government....
...But big changes loom after Mr Putin’s re-election....
...This would miss the Kremlin’s target, but would amount to 54m votes for Mr Putin — almost 10m more than in 2012, when he was re-elected against a backdrop of massive protests in Moscow, and surpassing both...
...Elena Lukyanova, an expert in constitutional and electoral law who has worked with Mr Navalny on some issues, has joined socialite Ksenia Sobchak’s campaign, arguing that election boycotts benefit authoritarian...
...“It’s like he’s saying we’re in power and we’ve decided that [a Navalny candidacy] is a bad idea,” he wrote on social media....
...“But you can feel the togetherness — that we’re all part of Russia.”...
...Even bleaker is writer-director Ksenia Zueva’s emotionally visceral and ironically titled Nearest and Dearest, whose protagonists tear each other apart, caught in a spiral of domestic conflict and cruelty...
...(Guardian) Russian challenge The presidential ambitions of Ksenia Sobchak, a television celebrity, has added unexpected unpredictability to the country’s forthcoming campaign....
...The one fresh face is Ksenia Sobchak, the 36-year-old daughter of his late political mentor....
...“Our province also has its own little monarchy,” says Ksenia Pakhomova, 23, who attended the protest in Kemerovo, a Siberian region run by the country’s longest-serving governor....
...If residents are used to call centres being in India, they’re unlikely to mind talking to someone in Kings Heath.”...
...He was Moscow bureau chief from 1991 to 1995 Photographs: Alexander Gronsky; Ksenia Babushkina; Corbis...
...“It’s good we’re not only in Russia,” she says of her business, which has a strong following in the Gulf also....
...“We’ve gone for a rebound in payroll growth to 200,000 in January but we’re stressing that it’s a bit uncertain.”...
...“All my foreign students express a lot of respect for Putin as a strong leader of the kind that many countries are in need of,” says Ksenia Plekhanova, a Russian language and literature teacher in Moscow...
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