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Vladimir Putin at a press conference. Photo from the Kremlin website
Today, December 17, Vladimir Putin’s press conference is held with elements of a hotline: Citizen Appeals.
The organizers have already raised the questions that most interest Russians. These are the dissatisfaction with distance education in schools and universities, social benefits, rising prices of goods, shortages of medicines, poor infrastructure in the regions. There are also many questions from Crimea about problems with the water supply.
A third of Russians plan to watch the press conference with Putin. The duration of the hotline will be approximately five hours.
Strana publishes the main statements of the Russian president. These are shown below the live video.
Putin broadcast today:
Transmission of the text of the press conference
11:42 A question from Novosibirsk: “Has a coronavirus vaccine been given? Will there be enough vaccines for Russians if now Russia is still helping others?”
Vladimir Putin: “I urge everyone to be very attentive to the recommendations of specialists. They tell us that the vaccines that come into circulation are suitable for certain age groups. For people like me, the vaccines have not yet arrived. For people like me “, the vaccine has not yet arrived. I am a law abiding person until, as you say, I have delivered the vaccine. But I will definitely do it when possible. We need to make a time interval between vaccines between vaccines against influenza and coronavirus. ”
“About universal vaccination, this must be done. Our vaccine is effective and safe, I see no reason not to vaccinate. The moment related to the help of foreign countries, I will say it again: our goal is to vaccinate at the national level. We are still missing iron – equipment to produce a vaccine. 70 million Russians have already been vaccinated against the flu. This is what we have to do with the coronavirus. By the beginning of next year, we will already have millions of vaccines, “Putin continued.
“On cooperation with other countries. We have enough components for the vaccine to be produced abroad,” Putin concluded.
11:31 Putin is asked about the elections to the State Duma next year.
“Regarding the parliamentary elections in 2021. There will be differences. We have adopted amendments to the Constitution – the parliament received more powers in various areas, including the formation of the government. This significantly increases the importance of the body of deputies. This is the first. on new parties: isn’t it time for the political heavyweights to give way to new parties? It is not the parties that decide, but the people. I believe (but I do not believe, but sure) up to 16 parties will be able to participate in the campaign not to collect signatures, “Putin began.
“Traditional political parties, they are well known, will be confused with patriotic positions. The approaches, the tools are different, but the objective is the same: the well-being and development of the country,” Putin concluded.
11:27 Putin continues with the tests and the vaccine: “We are testing, we are one of the three world leaders. We started selling domestic drugs. And finally vaccination. Russia was the first to invent a vaccine and started vaccination. Efficiency is 95-97%. Not a single case of serious side effects “We don’t have. Foreigners came to us. An AstraZeneca company came to us. I am sure that the result of the cooperation will be good. ”
11:18 A question from the Kremlin group, from Novo-Ogaryovo: “How prepared is the Russian health system? Is an interrogation taking place? This is both the problem of the shortage of drugs and their labeling. How will health reform proceed now? ”
Vladimir Putin: “Not a single system in the world was prepared for such a scale. But there is an example of how work was organized in our country. Of course, our system turned out to be more effective. There is a shortage of drugs, and we see all this. Look, when our Chinese friends said about the problem, we immediately resolved the issue at the border, we did not waste time, we deployed 270 thousand beds, we built 40 centers – polyclinics, some of them from the Ministry of Defense, that means that we are ready to respond quickly, we already have more than half a million doctors. We have retrained medical staff, introduced additional payments for the red zone. ”
“We have mutilated the production of masks 20 times, of which everyone is tired, there are so many where it happens. The amount of drugs has doubled. I took information from the call center that there are not enough medicines. Now it is a logistics problem, but the industry has reacted “, – says Putin.
11:09 Magadan’s first question: “Was the year a bad year or was there something good after all?”
Vladimir Putin: “What does bad mean? It’s like the weather: it’s not bad or good, the weather is the weather. If you talk about the coronavirus … Lockdown, production cuts, all of this happened. But with all the large amount of problems, there are problems in the sea! “We receive them with dignity. Perhaps better than other countries in the world that pride themselves on resilient economies and healthcare services. ”
Then the Russian president turned to his favorite numbers. “Now we have a fall in GDP of 3.6%, which is less than in many countries, including the United States. Industrial production – 3%. Agricultural production in a good area – plus 1.8%. The banking sector is in a very satisfactory condition The income of banks: 1 trillion 300 billion rubles. The fall in real income, unfortunately, will be about 3%. Our national debt was minimal and has now decreased. International reserves have grown: the December 4, about 587 billion dollars. And 70% of the budget is already formed not at the expense of the oil and gas sector. Despite everything, we celebrate Victory Day with dignity. For which I want to thank to citizens: we have confirmed that the basis of Russian identity is unity. This is the support of our neighbor. ”
11:06 The press conference began.
The organizers have made it interactive. Putin is in Novo-Ogaryovo. But his desk is removed as if he were with a journalist.
11:01 Several journalists, representatives of the Kremlin group, are still with Putin.
10:58 “Change the masks every hour or hour and a half, we will remind you,” Peskov told reporters.
10:57 Besides Moscow, there are several meeting points for journalists. They are in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, Tula, Stavropol and Nizhny Novgorod.
10:56 Peskov is not in Novo-Ogaryovo with Putin, but in the World Trade Center with journalists. He will be the moderator.
“I take off my mask, as there is no one around, and I ask everyone to stay in the mask,” Peskov said. He, we remember, has already had a coronavirus with his wife Tatyana Navka.
10:51 How many questions did Putin answer at press conferences in different years? The record was in 2008: 80 questions.
10:43 Organizers assume Putin’s hotline will be very long, until late at night.
10:31 Sergey Shnurov has already come to the press conference.
The organizers made a comment to Shnurov about the lack of a mask on his face. He replied, “I’m wearing a mask, you just don’t see it.”
The musician, who is the general director of the RTVi channel, said that his question would be related to international politics.
According to Sergei Shnurov, he went to the press conference because “there are no more worthy journalists on the channel.”
10:22 This is what the seating arrangement looks like at Moscow’s World Trade Center, the main gathering point for the media. Putin will not be there, he will contact from his residence near Moscow via a video link.
10:19 Less than an hour before the press conference. On Russia’s Channel One, they say that the coronavirus is not among the top questions Russians send to Putin from the site. moskva-putinu.ru and Vladimir Putin.rf. Citizens’ social issues are of much more interest.
