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Questions for Putin’s Year-End Program Top 414,000 Ahead of Dec. 19 Broadcast

Organizers report a rapidly accelerating flow of questions ahead of the Dec. 19 broadcast.

Overview

  • The tally rose from more than 350,000 on December 7 to over 414,000 on December 8, with organizers describing growth as geometric.
  • Question intake opened on December 4 at 15:00 MSK and will remain active until the program concludes on December 19 at 12:00 MSK.
  • Submissions are accepted via phone (8-800-200-40-40), SMS/MMS (0-40-40), the moskva-putinu.ru website, the MAX chatbot, and VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, with Sberbank’s GigaChat transcribing messages.
  • Most messages focus on social policy—especially pensions and families—and many request action against telephone fraud, while other top themes include the special military operation, the economy, infrastructure, and state–society issues.
  • Both Russian and foreign journalists are set to take part in the combined direct line and large press conference on December 19.