In the Kremlin, everyone who could only has already gone to a distance

All Kremlin employees who can work remotely are already doing so, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. According to him, according to TASS, in terms of organizing work, “we are very flexible.”

That is, everyone who can go remote in the Kremlin has already done so. “But, of course, there can be no full-scale remote work in the presidential administration,” Peskov stressed.

He also recalled that the Kremlin had already partially switched to remote work during previous waves of covid.

Recall that earlier today, Peskov said that the date of the announcement of the annual message of the head of state to the Federal Assembly could be shifted “by a couple of weeks” if the situation with the spread of the new strain of the coronavirus “omicron” becomes more complicated. As Peskov emphasized, the authorities “have already learned to take the measures prescribed by Rospotrebnadzor when holding such events,” as, for example, it was in December last year at a big press conference of President Vladimir Putin.

In addition, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered from January 21 to transfer the work of the government to a remote format as much as possible. Meetings of deputy prime ministers, the government apparatus, as well as federal ministries and departments, their territorial divisions and subordinate organizations will be held remotely, if such a format is acceptable. Mishustin also instructed to send as many employees of the government apparatus, federal authorities and the Analytical Center under the government as possible to remote work.