LIVE: On December 19, 2024, a direct line with Vladimir Putin will be held in Moscow. The event will be held for the second time during the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine (according to the Kremlin - "SVO", "special operation"): in 2022, the direct line did not take place, and in 2023, as now, it was held in mid-December). Like a year ago, the direct line is combined with Putin's annual press conference and is officially called "Year in Review with Vladimir Putin". According to the Kremlin, by Wednesday evening, more than 1.7 million questions were received on the direct line. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported that the priority topics for Russian citizens' requests to the "direct line with the president" are the "special military operation" (SMO) and "economic problems" (record inflation since 2002, an increase in the Central Bank's key rate, the fall of the ruble against the dollar and the euro). In 2023, on the eve of the direct line, questions for Putin sent by SMS flashed on the Gostiny Dvor screens - among them were tough ones: when will the war end, when will the mobilized be released, why is mobile roaming being turned on in Crimea if Crimea is Russia, etc. Later, the "wrong" questions were cut from the online version of the news on the Channel One website. This year, apparently, the Kremlin does not expect such problems: artificial intelligence will process and filter questions for the 2024 direct line. Peskov has already praised the work of Sberbank's Gigachat neural network, calling it a "magnificent tool." The special broadcast "Vozdukh" on the Khodorkovsky Live channel starts at 10:30 Moscow time, 9:30 Kyiv time, 8:30 Berlin time, 7:30 London time. Our hosts, correspondents and 14 experts will discuss live the expectations of Putin's speech and questions to the Russian president, then we will show the broadcast of Putin's direct line, and after Putin's answers we will sum up the results with the experts and discuss impressions of the event. Watch, like, subscribe and share with friends! Guests: Igor LIPSITS, economist Dmitry BYKOV, writer Vyacheslav SHIRYAEV, economic observer Abbas GALLYAMOV, political scientist Dmitry ORESHKIN, political scientist Kirill MARTYNOV, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Evropa Maxim REZNIK, politician Konstantin EGGERT, Deutsche Welle observer Andrei PERTSEV, political observer Igor EYDMAN, sociologist Ilya DAVLYATCHIN, journalist Ekaterina DUNTSOVA, politician Alexandra FILIPPENKO, Americanist, PhD in history Yuri PIVOVAROV, historian Hosts: Elena MALAKHOVSKAYA https://t.me/ElenMalakhovskaya Dmitry ELOVSKY https://t.me/delovsky Problems with YouTube? Watch and listen to us on Telegram: https://t.me/mbhlive WRITE TO US ON TELEGRAM: https://t.me/mbhlivebot Mikhail Khodorkovsky's new book: https://dragonbook.khodorkovsky.com "RASSVET". Let's help Ukraine together: https://rassvet.world/ =============================== Mikhail Khodorkovsky's blog: / khodorkovskyru How to bypass YouTube slowdown/blocking in Russia. Instructions for using YouTube with VPN • How to bypass YouTube slowdown/blocking... VPN guide from Mikhail Klimarev: https://nasvyazi.org/vpn/ Other guides "Na Svyazi": https://t.me/na_svyazi_helpdesk/312 VPN generator bot: https://t.me/vpngeneratorbot VPNLove VPN service rating: https://vpnlove.me/ #Putin #online #directline