Kseniya Sobchak
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Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak (Russian: Ксения Анатольевна Собчак, born November 5, 1981 in Leningrad, Russia) is the daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. Known as a presenter on the reality show "DOM 2" on TNT Russian channel. She is sometimes described as Russia's "It girl" and "Russia's Paris Hilton".
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As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Hermitage Museum art school. In 1998, Ksenia left the school attached to Herzen University, and enrolled at the Saint-Petersburg State University (Department of International Relations). In 2001 she moved to Moscow and enrolled in the International Relations program at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2002 she enrolled into a masters program in the department of politics of the same university.
She is also known as a clothes designer and promoter of rubber boots. In June 2006 she created her first collection of such boots.
She also acted against the newly produced law that prohibits sharing of private life of Russian celebrities without their permission.
NB: the model named Ksenia who featured on the cover of Pulp's This is Hardcore is not Kseniya Sobchak, but a different model who has worked with Pretty Polly and has featured in FHM (Pretty Polly Feature). The two have been confused on a number of occasions.
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