10 February 2016, 10:33 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Direct Line” Q&A session will be held on April 14, the Kremlin’s press service said in a statement.
Putin’s Q&A session in 2015 was watched by 8.4 million people and lasted 3 hours and 57 minutes, where the Russian leader answered 74 questions out of the 3 million that were collected from various means of communication.
This will be Putin’s fourteenth Q&A session.
Putin's hotlines have become a well-established tradition throughout the years of his presidency. The first live session was held in April 2001. Their duration has been increasing steadily over recent years, with the 2013 conference lasting a record 4 hours 47 minutes.
