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Russian president’s traditional end-of-year Q&A marathon session. Over 1,400 journalists have joined the event. It is expected that the focus will be on the US election results, Syrian conflict, and domestic issues.
President Putin is expected to speak on the Syrian crisis, the US election results, and his cautious optimism towards a possible rapprochement between Moscow and Washington, as well as on the economic challenges faced by Russia.
At least 1,437 reporters have been accredited this year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.
