Vladimir Putin received 228,717 questions over the Internet. The most of them concern municipal infrastructure, rights and freedoms, and even corruption, Russia-24 TV's news anchor says.
All in all, the Russian president received over 1.8 million questions.
Ahead of Vladimir Putin's annual live televised question-and-answer session on June 15, RFE/RL's Current Time TV spoke to people across Russia to find out what questions they want answered by their country's president. (RFE/RL's Current Time TV)
This year questions about Syria and Ukraine aren't among the top 20 or so, Russia-24 TV's anchor claims.
Almost every year, Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down in a TV studio for a marathon call-in show during which he takes questions from carefully vetted audience members and prescreened questions from viewers. Here are some of the most fawning questions heard during some of his most recent shows.
Putin just came into the studio, and the memes are already starting.
"Putin and the direct line".
The first question comes from the moderator and concerns the economic situation in the country.
According to Putin, the recession is over, but people's wages are low and poverty is high. It's still not as bad as in the 1990's though.