Since the start of the event at noon Friday and until 10:00 p.m. Moscow time, approximately 1.5 million messages about it were posted on social media, a research by Russia’s Medialogia automated real-time media monitoring and analysis system says

The hosts of the year-end press conference read or displayed up to 30 questions on screen, which had been submitted via phone, SMS, social media, and instant messaging platforms

The all-time high recorded in 2015 was 3.25 million

Since the start of the event at noon Friday and until 10:00 p.m. Moscow time, approximately 1.5 million messages about it were posted on social media, a research by Russia’s…