Russia's President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual news conference in December, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"The news conference will be traditionally held in December. This traditional format will be preserved," TASS cited the spokesman as saying.
Earlier, sources said that Putin may hold his annual year-end news conference on December 20.
Russia's president has held his annual news conferences to sum up each year’s results since 2001, with a break when he served as Prime Minister from May 2008 to May 2012. The shortest of these news conferences lasted for 1 hour and 35 minutes back in 2001, while the 2008 news conference set the record as being the longest one, lasting for 4 hours and 40 minutes.
