The Latest Breaking News from Anatoly Sobchak

Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

Al Jazeera · May 9, 2025

Voices: He’s ruled Russia for 25 years - but what has Putin really got to show for it?

COMMENT: Crisis has aided the Russian strongman’s regime stability far more than any index of economic success, writes Mark Almond

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2024

Putin unrecognisable in shell suit with full head of hair in uncovered 1990s video

Russian president Putin sports a longer haircut and can be seen playing ping pong, eating and socialising with other guests at a hospitality venue in Finland

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

Ukraine – a year of war: He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2023

Russian journalist and Putin’s rumoured goddaughter flees to Lithuania

Ksenia Sobchak, media personality and daughter of Vladimir Putin’s one-time boss, was subject of arrest order

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2022

Vladimir Putin's estranged 'goddaughter' seen on CCTV fleeing to West to avoid arrest

Ksenia Sobchak, 40, a leading Russian opposition politician and TV star, has been spotted crossing the Belarus-Lithuania border by foot in leaked surveillance footage

Daily Mirror · Oct 27, 2022

Russian media figure Ksenia Sobchak is in Lithuania after house search - state security

Russian media figure Ksenia Sobchak is in Lithuania after entering the country on her Israeli passport, the head of Lithuania's counter-intelligence service said on Thursday, a day after Russian police searched one of her houses.

Reuters · Oct 27, 2022

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak arrives in Lithuania

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s onetime boss — has arrived in Lithuania on an Israeli passport after fleeing Russian investigators who raided her home this week

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Ksenia Sobchak: Russian TV star ‘flees country’ as investigators raid her home

Sobchak is a popular socialite who was once dubbed the ‘Russian Paris Hilton’

Evening Standard · Oct 26, 2022

Investigators raid home of Russian celeb Ksenia Sobchak

Russian investigators have raided the home of Ksenia Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s one-time boss, in a move that has sent shockwaves through the country’s political scene

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022