Questions for Putin’s direct line are NOT accepted via ICQ (the press service has denied the rumors)

April 14 will be held the traditional straight line of Vladimir Putin, where he will answer questions from the Russians. An anonymous source from among the organizers of the program told the Kommersant publication that the organizers introduced elements of high technology: you can ask the President of the Russian Federation not only by phone, but also by ICQ,

Technical preparation for the broadcast has already begun, the source said.

Unfortunately, information about using ICQ turned out to be false. Just a press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, clarified that the ICQ messenger will not be used to collect questions.

ICQ is a popular instant messaging pager in the past. Developed by Israeli schoolchildren in 1996, two years later sold to AOL Corporation for $ 407 million. It now belongs to the Russian investment fund Mail.ru Group.
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The live broadcast of the event is organized not only on numerous Russian television and radio channels, but also on the Russia Today (RT) international channel. The video stream will go to a global audience through the Russia Today website, as well as through YouTube (in Russian, French and German). There will be no translation into English on the Internet, only on TV.

As usual, the question to the president can be sent via SMS and leave on the transfer website .