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Russian It Girl’s path from parties to protests

By LAURA MILLSNATALIYA VASILYEVA
Published June 14, 2012 4:30pm ET
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Russian It Girl’s path from parties to protests
FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with Lyudmila Narusova, right, widow of former St. Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak, and Sobchak's daughter Ksenia, as he visited the grave of Anatoly Sobchak at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ksenia Sobchak, the 30-year-old blond socialite and TV personality said “I’m Ksenia Sobchak, and I’ve got something to lose. But I’m here.” when she began her unlikely foray into political activism by taking the stage at a huge anti-Putin rally in December. Once considered untouchable because of her family’s close personal ties to President Vladimir Putin, Sobchak has since found that she does indeed have something to lose, as her apartment has been raided by police and she has been called in for interrogation. It has been a quick change of fortune for Russia’s It Girl, who like many Russians of her generation experienced a civic awakening after many years of political passivity. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS, Presidential Press Service, file) | AP

MOSCOW (AP) — “I’m Ksenia Sobchak, and I’ve got something to lose. But I’m here.” That’s what the 30-year-old blond socialite and TV personality said when she began her unlikely foray into political activism by taking the stage at a huge anti-Putin rally in December.

It was a shaky start.

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