More than 1,700 journalists are expected during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference in Moscow. (Bloomberg pic)MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will face hundreds of journalists Thursday during his annual press conference, a bookend event to a year of tensions with the West and crisis with Ukraine.
It also comes with the longtime Russian leader’s approval rating sliding, the first notable decline in his popularity since 2014, following an unpopular pension reform.
More than 1,700 journalists are expected at the Moscow event, some venturing from Russia’s most remote corners, others representing foreign media accredited in Moscow.
In the past the sheer number …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
