Sobchak

Ballots will include three questions: on whether Crimea should be independent, part of Russia, or part of Ukraine.

Russian socialite Ksenia Sobchak, a long-time TV host now intending to run for president, has said Crimea is Ukrainian territory, according to pro-Kremlin journalist Dmitry Smirnov.

The nomination of Ksenia Sobchak for the post of the Russian president actually provides a solution to Vladimir Putin's several problems, journalist Semen Novoprudsky wrote in the Novoe Vremya weekly.

Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, who decided to run for the presidency in Russia, and whose words about Ukrainian Crimea had previously caused a wide response, suggested holding a new referendum on the peninsula.

Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's political mentor and the late St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, says that Crimea belongs to Ukraine under international law.