INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin will for a second year in a row combine his annual press conference and televised call-in show next month,
wascombined with an end-of-year press conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.Neither of the two set-piece events was held in the
tumultuous year of 2022, when Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West unleashed an unprecedented flurry of sanctions
ordinary citizens that regional and local officials are accused of ignoring.
