Putin’s Fragile Grip on Russia Exposed by Playboy Model

Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Playboy Vladimir Putin is suddenly facing an uprising from the most unlikely source: glamorous female members of the Russian elite. Ksenia Sobchak , widely known as Russia’s Paris Hilton for getting her start on reality television, has joined celebrity influencer and Playboy cover-star Victoria Bonya in challenging the Kremlin’s propaganda machine. Sobchak on Wednesday publicly called on the country’s powerful Investigative Committee to launch a probe into the Kremlin’s top propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov , after he called Bonya a “worn-out slut taking up space” on state-controlled television. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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