President Putin received 187,000 SMS messages as part of the Direct Line with Russian President Vladimir Putin project. The greatest SMS activity was shown by residents of the Central and Volga federal districts, reports Regnum news agency . According to Infon, this year the number of people willing to participate in the dialogue with the president via SMS has increased by more than 50%. During the live broadcast, up to 12 messages per second were sent to a special number.
According to political analyst Maxim Kanevsky, this data is a kind of signal to Russian officials. “Use modern means of communication when working with the public, because it is much more effective.” He said that only 97 thousand questions were asked on the Internet, whereas for 9 hours of SMS-line operation - twice as much.