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Putin a year ago: “Russia does not threaten anyone”;  now he will not hold a traditional press conference

Putin a year ago: “Russia does not threaten anyone”; now he will not hold a traditional press conference

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not offer his traditional big annual press conference this year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Monday.

“Yes, there will be no before New Years”, Peskov answered the question of whether the annual press conference of the Russian president will not take place in the remainder of 2022.

At the same time, the spokesperson indicated that the Presidency considers that putin will have the opportunity to chat with the journalists who cover the information of the Kremlin, “as he does regularly, even during his trips abroad.”

“Russia does not threaten anyone”said the Russian president at his previous big press conference, on December 23 last year, when answering a question from a Western journalist about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On that occasion, two months after the beginning of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine that he ordered, putin He stressed that the threat is the United States, which has deployed missiles near the Russian border, as the Soviet Union did with Cuba in 1962.

The Russian president’s annual press conferences, to which more than a thousand journalists are accredited, usually last several hours and are broadcast live on television.

The second novelty announced today by the Russian Presidential spokesman is that this year, marked by the military campaign in Ukrainethe traditional New Year’s reception will not be held in the Kremlin either.

Source: Gestion

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