The appointment of Stanislav Belkovsky as chief political consultant of Ksenia Sobchak's headquarters was announced on October 25, 2017, on Ekho Moskvy by the campaign headquarters head of the TV presenter, Igor Malashenko. The information was relayed by the radio station's editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov.
Belkovsky, in particular, served on the jury of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's project 'Instead of Putin,' through which the former oligarch planned to select a candidate for the 2018 presidential election.
The day before, Sobchak announced the composition of her campaign headquarters. Besides Malashenko, a co-founder of NTV and co-head of Boris Yeltsin's 1996 election campaign, it included political strategists Vitaly Shklyarov, who worked for US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and Alexei Sitnikov, director Sergei Kalvarsky, and political strategist Marina Litvinovich, who had worked, in particular, with the Union of Right Forces, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Garry Kasparov.
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