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Journalist and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak returns to Russia after reportedly fleeing arrest

Source: RIA Novosti

Socialite and journalist Ksenia Sobchak has returned to Russia, Russian state media reported on Monday, citing witnesses who saw Sobchak enter the Pskov region.

Sobchak herself has not addressed the reports publicly. Last week, her mother, Federation Council member Lyudmila Narusova, said that her daughter would return to Russia “very soon.”

Sobchak left Russia on October 26 after reports that police had searched her country home in the Moscow region and considered her a suspect in an extortion case that also led to the arrest of her commercial director. Using her Israeli passport, Sobchak traveled through Belarus into Lithuania.

Citing knowledgeable sources, TASS reported at the time that police had received an order to arrest Sobchak as a suspect, “but she managed to hide.” Later, according to the agency, an Interior Ministry revoked the order. Sobchak’s lawyer, Sergey Badamshin, has said that his defendant “did not have the status of suspect and or defendant in the case.”

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