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  • Putin unexpectedly postpones his annual phone marathon for the first time in 18 years

    06/09/2022 8:15:34 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Business Insider Yahoo News ^ | 6/9/2022 | Bill Bostock
    President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly postponed his annual phone marathon on Wednesday, the first time in 18 years. Putin has held the "Direct Line" dial-in session for Russian citizens to fire questions at him each year since 2001, only missing it once, in 2004. Speaking to the state-run TASS news agency on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave no reason for the change and said the dial-in wouldn't happen in June. Somewhere between two and three million Russians try to talk to Putin during the phone-in each year, according to TASS. Past "Direct Line" events have run for more than four...