Kseniya Sobchak
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Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak November 5, 1981 St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| Partner(s) | Maxim Vitorgan (2013–present) | ||
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Anatoly Sobchak Lyudmila Narusova |
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Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak (Russian: Ксе́ния Анато́льевна Собча́к, born November 5, 1981) is a Russian TV anchor, journalist, socialite, and actress. 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" and "Russia's Paris Hilton". She transitioned from a celebrity socialite into a 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.
Sobchak is the second daughter of the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and Lyudmila Narusova, a Russian politician. She identifies herself as of Jewish heritage, but not religiously.
As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Hermitage Museum art school. In 1998, Sobchak 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.
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