MOSCOW — Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak’s campaign office says she was doused with water and knocked to the ground, in an assault on Sunday.
The incident came several days after Sobchak threw water on nationalist presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, during a televised debate.
In this handout photo released by Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak’s press service, Ksenia Sobchak, center, walks with a police officer after she was doused with water and knocked to the ground in an assault in Moscow on March 4, 2018. (Campaign office of Ksenia Sobchak via AP)
According to a statement on Sobchak’s campaign website, the man who threw water on her at the entrance of a Moscow hotel said, “This is for Zhirinovsky.” The statement says the man was detained by police and identified him as a staff member of the Moscow city council.
Sobchak, who rose to fame hosting a TV reality show, casts herself as the candidate for Russians fed up with current politics, but has largely avoided personal criticism of President Vladimir Putin.
Zhirinovsky, the 71-year-old leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, has achieved notoriety for his xenophobic statements. This will be the sixth time he has run for president.
Eight candidates are registered for Russia’s March 18 presidential election, including Putin.
— AP
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