The Russian journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak, daughter of Vladimir Putin’s one-time boss, has fled to Lithuania. Moscow reportedly raided one of her houses as part of a criminal case into alleged wrongdoing by her media director, who was arrested on charges of extortion. Sobchak has since said on her Telegram channel that the charges were ‘politically motivated’, but has yet to say where she is.
Sobchack has close family ties to the Russian president although she has often criticised his regime, running against Putin in the 2018 election
