"We've been going for more than three hours, and the questions keep coming," the moderator says.
Putin says more weapons are in the pipeline and he'll be talking about them soon.
Next question is about the ultramodern weapons that Putin mentioned in his state-of-the-nation address earlier this year. Putin repeats a lot of what he said about how great the weapons are and about how Russia was forced to develop them by the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM treaty.
Kremlin live-tweet: "It's important to simplify the procedure of obtaining citizenship for refugees from the DNR and the LNR." [A reference to areas of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by Russia-backed separatists]
Describes the Syrian operation as "invaluable experience."
Putin now discussing the silver lining of the war in Syria, saying the action was a great experience for the Russian military, better than any training. As an afterthought, he said it was a "necessary and noble" intervention that has "stabilized" Syria.
In response to the woman who says she fled eastern Ukraine, Putin says the government will try to solve the citizenship problem.
Amusing cartoon by Russian political cartoonist Sergei Yolkin showing Putin walking his "direct line."