Alexander Zemlianichenko / APRussian President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference Thursday, a wide-ranging event that lasted more than three hours. Putin didn’t mince his words when discussing his country’s military intervention in Syria, its relations with Turkey after the shooting down of a Russian warplane, and its presence in Ukraine. But he also touched on topics as diverse as the Russian economy, the U.S. presidential elections, his daughters, and Sepp Blatter, the embattled head of FIFA. Here are some of the more interesting excerpts from the news conference that was conducted before a live studio audience and included …read more
Source: The Atlantic
