The Russian President is holding his traditional annual “Direct Line” session with the country’s citizens for the 16th time. Vladimir Putin is expected to answer the dozens of questions in the course of the Q&A session, which usually lasts up to four hours.
The organizers said that more than 1.5 million calls and messages with questions for Putin had been received as of Tuesday. The questions will be sorted into categories, including sports, tourism, business, sanctions, agriculture, the 2018 FIFA World Cup, economy, ecology and Russia’s regions.
The session has been an annual event since 2001 and always is broadcast live.