Ksenia Sobchak is neither an opposition leader, nor a criminal authority, nor a criminal recidivist, nevertheless, her thirty-year biography already includes sufficient experience in dealing with judicial instances. The last line in the beginning of September 2012 in this annals was the filing of a lawsuit against Ksenia by Peter Alexander Makarov.
In St. Petersburg, Makarov heads the Committee on State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, but filed a lawsuit as a private individual. Alexander Igorevich was outraged by the record in the microblog of Ksenia Anatolyevna, in which it was said that he "requested a list of Jews (!) Working in the committee - and dismissed them." As follows from the lawsuit, Makarov considered that this post on Twitter discredits his honor and dignity. And Sobchak in one of the subsequent blog entries said that this information was “verbally confirmed by several high-ranking people” and promised: “tomorrow I will demand a list of those dismissed as a journalist.”
If the chairman of the committee filed a petition 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 this he asked to name the 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 on the blog of Ksenia Anatolyevna, the St. Petersburg reaction surprised her: "they are crazy, I wrote" they told me "and opened the quotation marks."
The date and place of the judicial review of the claim of Alexander Makarov is still unknown. But Sobchak’s previous communication with the Russian courts took place quite recently, though without her personal participation, through a lawyer. On August 23, the court examined the claim of Ksenia Anatolyevna demanding the return of about € 1.4 million and almost 500 thousand rubles seized during the search. The money was withdrawn as part of the investigation into the riots in Bolotnaya Square on May 6. The Basmanny court refused this claim, citing the fact that investigators still consider the money put up in a hundred envelopes as a means of paying for illegal actions.
