Vladimir Putin has not yet announced his candidacy for Russia’s presidential election in 2018, but the race does have at least one early entrant: Ksenia Sobchak, the daughter of Putin’s first boss and the so-called “Russian Paris Hilton”, is officially running for president.The Kremlin, of course, has given Sobchak’s candidacy the seal of approval. Russian elections are a farce, and everyone who participates in the process is only contributing to the charade. The story of Ksenia Sobchak’s candidacy is not about real electoral choices, which do not actually exist in today’s Russa. But I would like to summarize some facts …read more
Source: The American Interest
