Russian President Putin To Hold World News Conference

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin is set to hold an annual news conference today, thursday.

Putin will be answering questions from over one thousand eight hundred (1,800) local and foreign journalists.

Radio Free Europe reports that the televised end-of-year news conference has been a regular event of Putin’s tenure, one of a series of high-profile set-piece events he uses to burnish his image, reassure Russians that they are in good hands, and send signals to the United States and the rest of the world.

Recall that Russia has been accused by US Democrats for interfering in the 2016 US elections.

Furthermore, the event is coming after series of protest in Moscow and in other cities within the nation.

Thousands of Russians had held a rally in Moscow demanding the release of jailed protesters.

Over 24,000 people gathered to protest the detention of more than 1,000 people in July for saying that the  exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election was illegal.