Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Is there a single russian who doesnt expect Vladimir Putin to contest next springs president ial election and win it easily . Mr putin has yet to declare his intentions, but his desire to prolong his dominance of russia is surely not in doubt. Less certain is whether the president will face a credible opponent. My guest has declared her intention to run. Ksenia sobchak has one big advantage almost universal name recognition thanks to her tv career but is her candidacy anything more than a fig leaf for the kremlin . Theme music Ksenia Sobchak welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You have a very big ambition. So what do you think it takes . What are the qualities, the assets needed to be president of russia . First of all, in modern russia, the quality which is needed to challenge putin and to challenge him for a change is to be brave, because elections in russia now are not elections in belgium. It is not like trying to become a Prime Minister in not v
Im stephen sackur. Is there a single russian who doesnt expect Vladimir Putin to contest next springs president ial election and win it easily . Mr putin has yet to declare his intentions, but his desire to prolong his dominance of russia is surely not in doubt. Less certain is whether the president will face a credible opponent. My guest has declared her intention to run. Ksenia sobchak has one big advantage almost universal name recognition thanks to her tv career but is her candidacy anything more than a fig leaf for the kremlin . Ksenia sobchak welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You have a very big ambition. So what do you think it takes . What are the qualities, the assets needed to be president of russia . First of all, in modern russia, the quality which is needed to challenge putin and to challenge him for a change is to be brave, because elections in russia now are not elections in belgium. It is not like trying to become a Prime Minister in not very big european country. Here, w
Im stephen sackur. Is there a single russian who doesnt expect Vladimir Putin to contest next springs president ial election and win it easily . Mr putin has yet to declare his intentions, but his desire to prolong his dominance of russia is surely not in doubt. Less certain is whether the president will face a credible opponent. My guest has declared her intention to run. Ksenia sobchak has one big advantage almost universal name recognition thanks to her tv career but is her candidacy anything more than a fig leaf for the kremlin . Ksenia sobchak, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You have a very big ambition. So what do you think it takes . What are the qualities, the assets needed to be president of russia . First of all, in modern russia, the quality which is needed to challenge putin and to challenge him for a change is to be brave, because elections in russia now are not elections in belgium. It is not like trying to become a Prime Minister in not very big european country. Here,
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That attractive. He called it a g6 at best. At one point the president asked me which one was the salad fork but i couldnt tell because they all looked so huge next to his hands. Its the late show with stephen colbert. Russia week tonight stephen welcomes james mcavoy, and comedian mateao lay featuring jon batiste and stay human. And stephen meeting with real life oligarch mikhail p prrks okohorov and now live from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its stephen colbert. Stephen whooo cheers and applause thank you. Thank you very much, thank you, comrads wow. Somebody sounds like somebody that, this crowd sounds like they have been hitting the pickles and vodka out there. Welcome to the late show, everybody, im your host stephen colbert. Now if you watch the show if you watched the show last night im going to say all of you did. You remember you remember last night we were talking about how after seven years of promising over and over again to repeal and replace obamacare the bil