Russian presidential candidate Sobchak is doused with water

Russian presidential applicant Ksenia Sobchak's crusade office says she was soaked with water and thumped to the ground in an ambush on Sunday. 

The episode came a few days after Sobchak tossed water on patriot presidential hopeful Vladimir Zhirinovsky amid a broadcast wrangle about. 

As indicated by an announcement on Sobchak's battle site, the man who tossed water on her at the passageway of a Moscow inn said "This is for Zhirinovsky." 

The announcement said the man was confined by police and recognized him as a staff individual from the Moscow city board. 

Sobchak, who rose to popularity facilitating a TV reality appear, gives herself a role as the contender for Russians tired of current legislative issues yet has to a great extent maintained a strategic distance from individual feedback of President Vladimir Putin. 

Zhirinovsky, the 71-year-old pioneer of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party, has won reputation for his xenophobic explanations. This will be the 6th time he has keep running for president. 

Eight competitors are enlisted for Russia's March 18 presidential decision, including Putin. 

With his endorsement appraisals topping 80 percent and adversaries trailing a long ways behind, Putin is set to effortlessly win a fourth term. 

Putin's most vocal faultfinder, the 41-year-old restriction pioneer Alexei Navalny, has been banned from the race because of a criminal conviction that he calls politically persuaded.