Anatoliy Sobchak

Anatoliy Sobchak. Self: Svoboda po russki. Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (10 August 1937 - 19 February 2000) was a Soviet and Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, and a mentor and teacher of future presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. On 17 February 2000, Putin met with Sobchak and urged him to travel to Kaliningrad to support his...