Ksenia Sobchak is neither an opposition leader, nor a crime boss, nor a repeat offender, nevertheless, her thirty-year biography already includes sufficient experience of communicating with the courts. The last line in this chronicle at the beginning of September 2012 was the filing of a lawsuit against Xenia by St. Petersburg citizen Alexander Makarov.
In St. Petersburg, Makarov heads the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, but he filed a lawsuit as a private person. Alexander Igorevich was outraged by the entry in Ksenia Anatolyevna's microblog, in which it was said that he "requested a list of Jews (!) Working in the committee - and fired them." As follows from the lawsuit, Makarov considered that this Twitter entry defamed his honor and dignity. And Sobchak in one of the subsequent blog entries said that this information “verbally confirmed by several. high-ranking people "and promised:" tomorrow, as a journalist, I will request a list of those dismissed."
If the chairman of the committee filed a complaint with the court as a private person, then as an official he reacted a little earlier, demanding from Sobchak "to make a public apology as soon as possible" and remove the provocative entries from Twitter. And besides that, he asked to name the above-mentioned high-ranking people. The press service of the committee also issued a statement refuting this "false, baseless and provocative" information. Judging by the next entry in the blog of Ksenia Anatolyevna, the reaction of St. Petersburg residents surprised her: "They are crazy, I wrote" I was informed "and opened the quotes."
The date and place of the court consideration of the claim of Alexander Makarov are still unknown. And Sobchak's previous communication with the courts of Russia took place quite recently, although it passed without her personal participation, through a lawyer. On August 23, the court considered the claim of Ksenia Anatolyevna with the requirement to return about € 1, 4 million and almost 500 thousand rubles seized during the search. The money was seized as part of the investigation into the May 6 riots on Bolotnaya Square. The Basmanny Court rejected this claim, citing the fact that investigators still consider the money packaged in a hundred envelopes to be a means of payment for unlawful actions.
