普京恩師的女兒宣佈參加明年俄羅斯大選

Ksenia Sobchak, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's political mentor, has said she will stand in Russia's presidential election next March, which Putin is expected to win.

弗拉基米爾·普京的政治導師之女卡辛妮亞·索布恰克於日前表態，她將於明年三月參加普京預計能夠勝出的俄羅斯總統大選。

Sobchak, a socialite and liberal journalist, once took part in opposition protests.

社交名媛、自由派記者索布恰克曾參加過反對派的抗議活動。

"Over the past 17 years a whole new generation has grown up that wants to see a different Russia that is civilised and European," she said in an interview on Russia's TV Rain in which she announced her candidacy.

她在宣佈自己候選人身份的俄羅斯電視臺TV Rain的一次採訪中表示：“過去17年，全新一代長大了，他們希望看到一個不一樣的、文明的、歐化的俄羅斯。”

Sobchak acknowledged that she had met Putin recently to interview him for a television programme. She said by this point she had decided to run for president and informed Putin, who "did not look happy".

索布恰克承認，她近日爲了一個電視節目採訪過普京。她說，那時她決定競選總統，並且通知了普京，而普京“看起來不怎麼開心”。

Analysts said her candidacy looked like a Kremlin-backed "spoiler" campaign to boost the legitimacy of the elections and split the liberal opposition.

分析人士指出，她的參選看起來像是克里姆林宮支持的一場“攪局”運動，以此來提高選舉的合法性，並分裂自由主義的反對派。

In order for Sobchak to get on to the ballot, she will need to collect 300,000 signatures from Russian citizens.

爲了使自己能夠登臺競選，索布恰克需要獲得至少30萬份俄羅斯民衆的簽名。