Emerging from a friend’s Maserati on southern Spain’s Mediterranean coast, Ksenia Sobchak wants the world to know: Back home in Russia, fighting for change is futile.
“There is no resistance, nor can there be any,” she says.
“This has to be understood.”She can point to ample proof to support her pessimism: Thousands of Russians have been arrested for protesting the war.
Ms. Sobchak is one of the best-known media figures still based in Russia and the daughter of one of Mr. Putin’s first political mentors.
She is able to widely communicate her call for Russians to just cope with the war, though her stance has also made her profoundly unpopular among two distinctly different sets.
Persons:
Sobchak, Vladimir V, Putin’s
Organizations:
Maserati, Liberal
Locations:
Russia, Ukraine