Putin holds annual press conference and televised call-in show

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to hold his annual end-of-year press conference and televised call-in show on Thursday. The question-and-answer session for journalists is combined with the television programme "Results of the Year," where citizens can put their own questions to the president. The two formats were merged for the first time in 2020 and definitively in 2023, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov citing the president's lack of time as justification for the move. Putin cancelled t