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  2. Dec 14, 2023 · Ukraine was clawing back Russian-occupied territory: the situation had forced the Russian president into a "partial mobilisation", drafting hundreds of thousands of Russian men to fight in Ukraine....

  3. Dec 23, 2021 · In Moscow today, Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his annual year-end press conference. It's a marathon affair that typically lasts more than four hours. With more than 100,000...

    • On The Coronavirus
    • On The Economy
    • On Cancel Culture
    • On Navalny’s Poisoning and Russia’s Civil Society Crackdown
    • On Russia’s Foreign Policy
    • On Father Frost

    With the second year of the pandemic coming to a close and Russia’s excess death toll among the highest in the world, the coronavirus was a constant presence through the press conference. Putin bemoaned Russia’s low vaccination rate — currently at around 45% of adults after a year-long vaccination campaign — and blamed it for the country’s Covid-19...

    The first few questions of the press conference were dedicated to Russia’s economy, which has recovered to its pre-coronavirus state but has slowed in recent months. Putin said Russia had recovered better from the pandemic compared to many developed countries, listed off a number of economic statistics and said he expected real incomes — which are ...

    Putin repeated his long-standing disdain of Western “liberal” values and defended so-called “traditional values” in response to a question from the state-run RT broadcaster on cancel culture and the controversy surrounding "Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s comments on transgender people. “I adhere to the traditional approach — a woman is a woman...

    Putin urged Western governments to “turn a page” on jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s poisoning and sought civil society’s help in investigating torture cases across Russian prisons. He claimed without evidence that Western countries have failed to provide proof of Navalny’s August 2020 poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent in Siberia. “Give...

    In addition to the host of reporters from domestic media, Putin took questions from British, Italian, Kazakh, Chinese and Belarusian outlets. In answers to the latter three, he stressed Russia’s strong, friendly economic and cultural relations with their respective countries. To an Italian reporter, Putin said that despite Italy’s membership in NAT...

    In an unexpected turn of events, Putin was asked about his relationship with Father Frost ⁠—the Russian version of Santa Claus. The question was asked by a journalist based in Veliky Ustyug ⁠—a town in northwest Russia that is home to the mythical figure. Putin thanked Father Frost for having helped him become president and urged the mythical figur...

  4. Dec 14, 2023 · In 2023, the direct line with the people of Russia and the annual news conference have been merged into a single event taking place in Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor. * * * Yekaterina Berezovskaya: We have been accepting questions from across the country for precisely two weeks, and we have received an incredible number of submissions.

  5. Dec 23, 2021 · Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina Purchase Licensing Rights. MOSCOW,...

  6. Dec 19, 2019 · May 7, 2024. Current resource. All content on this site is licensed under. Presidential. Events. Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference. The news conference was broadcast live by Rossiya-1, Rossiya-24, Channel One, NTV television channels, as well as radio stations Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii. December 19, 2019. 16:20. Moscow.

  7. Dec 23, 2021 · Presidential 2024. Events. Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference. The President’s annual news conference was broadcast live by Rossiya 1, Channel One, NTV and Rossiya 24 television channels, as well as Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii radio stations. December 23, 2021. 16:10. Moscow. 8 of 32. Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference.