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A Russian woman plays with her baby while watching the televised call-in show with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
A Russian woman plays with her baby while watching the televised call-in show with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Live Blog: Putin's Call-In Show

-- After 3 hours and 40 minutes, it's over.

-- Economic questions dominated the early portion of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual televised question-and-answer session, followed by queries about Russia's foreign relations with countries such as Turkey, Ukraine, and Syria.

-- One of the first questions put to Putin concerned rising prices for groceries and other necessities. Putin said that he understands that people are being hurt by inflation.

-- Putin was asked -- reportedly by a 12-year-old girl -- who he would save from drowning first: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the leaders of two countries with which Russia currently has badly strained relations.

10:11 14.4.2016

Many people are complaining about the price of housing and communal services, anchors say.

10:15 14.4.2016

"Your face when they ask about your ex."

10:20 14.4.2016

In 2008, the crisis was even worse than today. “Now we must achieve stable growth,” Putin says.

10:21 14.4.2016
10:25 14.4.2016

A question on the screen: “Not a word about offshores. Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are?”

10:28 14.4.2016

Q: What would your three wishes be?

A: It’s better not to count on fairy tale creatures. If we wait for miracles, we’ll end up nowhere. It’s best to work hard.

10:31 14.4.2016

Live from Russia's Far East, at the Sakhalin fish factory where workers can Chinese fish, apparently.

10:33 14.4.2016
10:35 14.4.2016

The Power Vertical Weighs In:

So far I have learned:

1) That Russia has bad roads

2) That salaries aren't being paid

3) That people can't afford medicine

4) That Putin gets along better with his ex-wife than when they were married

So explain to me again: Why is Putin such a great leader?

-- Brian Whitmore

10:38 14.4.2016

Question about corrupt governor of Sakhalin. Will he be punished?

A: Absolutely. It’s difficult to say if we can return the money he embezzled back to the government, but we are working on it.

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