Tomorrow the Vesti channel and the Mail.Ru company will present a joint project - the broadcast of the Direct Line with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. October 18 at 12 am Moscow time, the president will answer questions from Russians on the air. To date, over a million questions have already been collected by Russians.
The direct line will be broadcast on the Video@Mail.Ru project (http://video.mail.ru) and on the website of the Vesti TV channel (www.vesti.ru).
Questions are collected through a free hotline, one hundred and thirty operators of which receive calls from residents of Russia round the clock, as well as on a special website on the Internet - President-line.ru. ')
As in previous years, Russian citizens are mainly concerned with social issues related to the increase in wages and pensions. Many questions concern social support for pregnant women and young mothers. Other topics of interest to Russians include housing construction, the holding of the Olympics in Sochi, and the recent rise in prices for many types of products.
Since the framework of the live broadcast will not allow to answer all the questions received, the president will be asked the most interesting and relevant of them.
Last year, the President’s television conversation with citizens took place on October 25. Then Vladimir Putin set a record for the duration of communication with the Russians on the air: he answered the questions of compatriots for 2 hours and 54 minutes. Putin managed to answer 52 Russians from nine regions of the country, as well as residents of Sevastopol, devoting an average of more than 3 minutes to each question. A total of 2334043 questions were received by the President of Russia, including: by telephone - 2236312, by Internet - 97731.
The broadcast of the Direct Line with the President of Russia was not the first joint project of Mail.Ru and the Vesti TV channel. In April 2007, the companies presented an exclusive live broadcast of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft launch to the International Space Station.
The draft of the Video@Mail.ru (http://video.mail.ru) was launched in October of 2006 and became the first public video hosting on the Russian Internet. The project almost immediately won the popularity of the audience. To date, the project audience is almost 4 million people per month.