Kremlin confirms plans for Putin's big press conference Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin will hold an annual big press conference, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

“We will decide on the format depending on the development of the epidemiological situation,” Peskov added. He did not name the exact date of the event.

Last year, Putin held a press conference on 17 December. Part of it was via videoconferencing. Then the president announced one-time payments to families with children under seven years of age in the amount of 5 thousand rubles. for every child.

In addition, he called the Russian healthcare system effective in a pandemic, and RUSSIA was the first country to invent and start producing a vaccine against covid-19 . Putin also announced the reform of primary HEALTH care, voicing the amount provided for these purposes - 500 billion rubles.