Oh, New York Times. As stupid and dishonest as ever.
OK, here goes. Ksenia is the daughter of the St Petersburg mayor who first gave Putin a government position. We would all be “Putin who?” without this fellow.
Ksenia has spent the last 20 years spreading a rumor that she’s Putin’s goddaughter, which Putin never denied. Or confirmed but who cares when she’s been able to self-promote massively on the basis of this rumor.
She’s been known as an influencer and TV hostess, as well as one of those oligarch mistresses that pass from one rich dude to another. It’s clearly not her beauty that attracts oligarchs in droves. But she has a proximity to Putin, so who cares that she looks like a horse?
Ksenia has helped the Putin regime in every possible way, including working to create an illusion of elections in Russia at some point.
You’ve got to be either completely unprofessional (and banned from Google) or a shameless stooge to lionize this distasteful “vagina for hire” and present her as some sort of an anti-Putin fighter. And letting her amplify the lies about the invincibility of the regime she so faithfully serves is simply immoral.
And before you say, OK, who cares about some stupid Ksenia Sobchak, ask yourself why you assume that the rest of the stories the paper publishes are any less rotten.
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