MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a televised question-and-answer session to sum up the results of the outgoing year.
The event, headlined 'Results of the Year,' will again combine his hotline TV show and a large press conference. It will begin at noon Moscow time (9:00 a.m. GMT) on Friday.
The event will be held again in Moscow’s main exhibition hall Gostiny Dvor, where hundreds of journalists, including foreigners, will gather. "It’s in our interests to make it so that the whole world hears what Putin says," Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
Live broadcasts from Russian regions, used in previous editions of the program, are not expected this time. However, everyone has a chance to address the president, as only a smartphone is required to do so.
To date, more than 2,100,000 questions have come in via different channels. Calls to the call center account for the majority of all requests from citizens, with the second most popular way to contact the president being a chatbot in the Max messenger, which was tested for the first time this year. The questions are already being processed by relevant ministries and the president himself.
