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In 2018, she became the first woman to run for Russian president as an opposition candidate not endorsed by the Kremlin, a campaign that deliberately avoided anti-Putin sloganeering while demanding constitutional reform, judicial independence, and transparency in state budgeting. Her platform centered on procedural democracy: restoring fair election oversight, decriminalizing protest, and reviving parliamentary debate as a legitimate arena of dissent. Unlike many opposition figures, she built her credibility through years of televised political talk shows, notably 'Dom-2' turned 'Sobchak Live', where she interviewed oligarchs, activists, and bureaucrats with equal rigor, exposing contradictions without theatrical outrage. Her signature move was insisting on policy specificity: when critics dismissed her as elite or performative, she published detailed proposals on municipal finance reform and media licensing rules. That blend, high visibility, policy granularity, and refusal to reduce politics to personality clashes, carved out a rare space in Russia’s constrained public sphere: one where reform could be debated as craft, not just courage.
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