Russian President holds annual press conference on results of year

Baku. 20 December. REPORT.AZ/ Russian president Vladimir Putin is holding the 14th Annual Press Conference in Moscow's World Trade Center.

Report informs citing the Russian press that this year, a record number of media representatives - 1,702 journalists have been accredited for the event. Last year, 1,640 journalists attended the meeting with President.

Simultaneous translation into English, German and French is provided for foreign journalists attending the press conference,.

In 2008, the event took a whopping 4 hours 40 minutes — the longest talk so far.

According to Peskov, Vladimir Putin has spent several days preparing for this press conference (although he attended to the pressing matters, too).

"In between [pressing matters] and long into the night, the president familiarises himself with a vast amount of information, prepared by the ministers, department heads and expert divisions of the administration", Peskov said.