A leak that illustrates the current unstable situation in Russia, aside from the military invasion in Ukraine. Russian television presenter and journalist Ksenia Sobchak, who in recent years had also been involved in politics, left the country for Lithuania, several media outlets among them say. The Guardian.
A symbolic departure since Ksenia, 40, is the daughter of Anatoli Sobchak, a former politician who died in 2000 whom Putin appointed as his mentor. She is also the goddaughter of the current president of the Russian Federation and ran against him in the last presidential election, in which she got less than 2% of the vote.
Confirmed presence in Lithuania
According to the Anglo-Saxon media, this hasty exit was encouraged by the search of one of his houses by the Moscow police. At first she would have crossed Belarus by car before crossing the Lithuanian border on foot. Video surveillance images on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border confirm this step.
At first, to cover his tracks and seed the Russian authorities, he had bought tickets to Dubai via Istanbul.
This Thursday, Darius Jauniškis, head of the counterintelligence service, also confirmed the presence of the journalist in his country. “Surely she is. [en Lituanie] … I confirm the fact,” he told local radio.
To enter Lithuania, Ksenia Sobchak has also had to use her Israeli passport since for several weeks the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and therefore Lithuania) have prohibited entry into their territory to Russian citizens who have a tourist visa .
“As an Israeli citizen, with a valid passport, you do not need a visa and can enter Lithuania and stay there for up to 90 days,” Jauniskis added.
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According to the Russian news agency Tass, Russian authorities wanted to arrest Sobchar for his alleged involvement in a criminal case involving Kirill Sukhanov, the director of the outlet for which he works.
as progress The GuardianA Moscow court on Wednesday jailed Sukhanov for trying to extort 11 million rubles (about 150,000 euros) from Sergey Chemezov, the head of Russian state defense company Rostec and a former KGB general close to Putin.
Source: BFM TV
