The annual Q&A session of Russian President Vladimir Putin will be held without a live studio audience this year, and citizens will be able to use a special app to ask the Russian leader questions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
Peskov noted that the session’s hosts will talk to the president "after analyzing the whole bulk of questions". "Understandably, there will be no audience in the studio this year," the spokesman said.
He noted that the Q&A session will include plenty of high-tech features, with a special focus made on the smartphone app. "This app allows every citizen of our country to essentially become a TV and radio reporter, and to record their question without any mediators, showing, what they want, from the outside world, or to formulate their question in writing," Peskov said.
The spokesman stressed that the goal of this year’s Q&A session is for people to speak directly to the president. "There will be a direct conversation, the president will be able to see the whole palette of common topics, subtopics, and what topics prevail in different regions of the country".
The Kremlin press service announced that the traditional Q&A session of Russian President Vladimir Putin would be held on June 30.
