Q from Kaliningrad: What happens to the stadium after the World Cup is over? Can we use it? [Kaliningrad is one of the hosts.]
A: It's an odd question, to be honest. Of course. Almost everything we built for the Olympics in Sochi is in use today.
Q: Are you ready to talk to the opposition?
A: I am ready to talk to anyone who wants to solve problems, and not to use them as the means for political PR.
Schoolchildren ask Putin for words of encouragement.
He delivers.
Putin, referring to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee:
"[Comey] said that he took notes of his conversation with the president [Donald Trump] and then handed it over to the media through his friend. It looks and sounds very strange when the head of special security service is taking notes of his talks with the commander-in-chief and handing it over to the media through his friend. Then what's the difference between the FBI director and [the former U.S. intelligence contractor who leaked thousands of secret documents from the National Security Agency] Mr. [Edward] Snowden?"
"It makes him not the head of special security service then, but a rights defender, who defends a certain position. By the way, if he will face any kind of prosecution in this regard, we are ready to provide him with political asylum in Russia. He has to know this."
Q: If you had a time machine, where would you go?
A: I wouldn't use it, because whatever happens happens, only the time machine means unpredictable consequences. However, I would love to see how St. Petersburg was built. How our fathers and grandfathers won World War II. How decisions important for Russia were made.
When asked about corruption, Putin says he knows about the issue, but it has never been the first question people asked him during previous Direct Lines. It is not a paramount issue, but still an important one.