Putin holds year-end press conference, receives more than 2 million questions

Russian President Vladimir Putin will begin his annual press conference and question-and-answer session at 4 p.m. today, December 19 (Vietnam time).

According to TASS, before the press conference, more than 2 million questions had been sent to President Putin from the public, after 11 days of being open to receive questions in various forms. The questions will be selected and Mr. Putin will have an overview of the questions sent in.

According to statistics from Rossiya-24, the most popular form of sending questions is still by phone, with more than 1.1 million calls to the direct line. In addition, more than 477,000 text messages were sent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the event on December 14

The top issues of concern to Russians among the questions submitted included health care, roads, housing, utilities and payments via social media. The special military operation in Ukraine was also a high-profile issue.

In 2023, Moscow received more than 2.8 million questions and inquiries from citizens for President Putin. Previously, the press conference and the Q&A session were two separate events, but they were combined in 2020, the third time they have been held in this combined format. Since 2001, the Q&A session has been held 18 times, while the year-end press conference has been held 16 times, not including the times when the two events were combined.

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According to Sputnik, in addition to questions from the public, Mr. Putin will also receive and answer questions from Russian and international journalists. In 2023, the press conference will take place on December 14, 2023 and last for 4 hours, President Putin will answer 67 questions, of which 26 will come from the public and 33 will come from the press.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ong-putin-to-chuc-hop-bao-cuoi-nam-nhan-hon-2-trieu-cau-hoi-185241219160309925.htm