Putin to hold online year-end Q&A session

Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Friday (December 19, 2025) hold his annual year-end online session where he will answer questions from the public and media.

The online question and answer session, which will be held at noon (2:30 p.m. IST), is into the 22nd year and is likely to sum up the results of 2025.

Mr. Putin will also take questions from foreign media, not considered ‘friendly’ by Moscow, Kremlin said.

Over two weeks preceding Friday’s (December 19, 2025) online conference, the call centres set up specially by the Kremlin have received more than 2.49 million questions for the President.

According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, most of the questions concern social issues and subsidies.

All the questions have been grouped thematically and the President has been going through them late into night for a couple of days, he said.

During last year’s conference, he answered questions for over four hours.