was it an event that causes so many different changes? it's stressful, at many levels. ah, put in a put in his whole to his life, q and a marathon with the russian public, where the pandemic is expected to dominate. the annual event never goes by without its fair share of human. ah . by that great, have you with your watching auntie internation. ok, i just be the it it for you. any moment now ready to to will begin. fielding questions from the russian public is part of his annual life question and answer session last year. people of course miss downs on the chance because of the panoramic, but almost 2000000 questions have already been sent in for today's event. the covey

situation is expected to feature highly among people's concerns that the medicine event typically as a light hearted side to it as well. okay, let's find out what's happening from constantine rush, golf correspondent at the scene of event for his constant in session. just getting underway. what do we expect to be seeing? well, hello to you, neil. so we're at the convention center where latimer potent is going to hold his annual q and a session with the people of russia. and you know, it's going to be broadcast and i'll major russian tv channels as well as here on our team. the set for the high profile phone and show is ready. and it's actually just a few meters away from where we're standing right now. and you know, i had the chance to visit it yesterday. you know, there are big screens all around and in the center a table for the president and to co hosts. he will help manage the huge influx of questions and information. now, the format,

which was 1st launched in 2001, is famous for given the public, the opportunity to quiz the president directly. and this year though, because of the pandemic, there won't be a live audience on sat. but, you know, the organizers are sure is that they will make it, you know, as interactive as possible, of people from all over the country will be joining the program live, to ask their questions and bring the issues that matter to them to the president's attention and there is also a call center of this show right in this building, and this is where you know, all the questions for the president come in and are as sorted out. and the center has been up and running for the past couple of weeks actually. and we'll work right through the q and a session which starts any minute now. and you know, there will no doubt be some questions about russia on the world stage. for example, about what the written, brief and prudent invited summit means for the country with the, you know, we've been russian diplomat. so trying to decode washington's mixed messages.

but you know, it's interesting that for instance, why am repeating spokesperson matri pasco, when he was asked in the run up to this event about the most frequent questions that are coming into to the show. he said that, well, they see that the number of questions about the international affairs decreases actually this year compared to the previous years. and this is, might signal that, you know, because of the pandemic because of what was going on with the economy and not just in russia, but worldwide. people are now more concerned on their domestic issues rather than on what's going on on the international and the world stage. but in the know, of course, the lines sheer of the questions are likely to be about, you know, the kind of issues that arise in ordinary day to day lives of russians. and i guess it's safe to say that one of the focuses this year will be the pandemic in the

country. as you know, several russian regions including moscow have imposed mandatory vaccination for certain groups of people. and, you know, not just that in the rushing capital, for instance, steve introduce q r code system that, you know, let's only those who have been vaccinated or who has to negative into cafes and restaurants. so you know that this is something that's been dominating news and headlines here in russia. and, you know, there are people who we can refer to as the vaccine skeptics. there's, there was backlash against those rules and new measures. and of course, we're sure that they're going to be a lot of questions about that coming up. we know that there are over 1500000 questions that have already been sent in. and, you know, usually only some like 7080 gets get 3 to the president during the live program. but the organizers claim that you know, it doesn't mean that the rest are left unanswered. and in fact, you know,

that's another job of this call center to, you know, assigned this, you murs quarries to different ministries and local authorities so that they can follow them up after the show. and, and, you know, some times as some times issues are sorted out even before the end of the q and a session as local officials, as well as federal ministers and governors. watch it live. and, you know, take note of what's fraud you putin's attention and you know, it's, it's not always, you know, as stuffy as one might expect. the program has, it's a fair share of funny situations and flattery put himself can crack a joke or 2 if an opportunity arises. you know, there is always this mix of emotions from, you know, intense conversations about low salaries, high utility bills. you know,

the lack of medications and cetera, to humor, and bursts of laughter. and, you know, i remember because i've been covering this show for quite a while. and i remember there was one show when a woman called in and she asked library putin to speak to her husband directly. and you know, convince him to go to have a dog. so, you know, that's the whole gambit of different questions in different situations that can you know, come into play during this live program. so, i mean, we'll see how it's going to go this year. the show starts, like i said, any minute now, and we're expecting vladimir putin to at, to come out and start this, start taking a start taking the questions like i mentioned the call center that also work in here in this building. and it's, it's really amazing that it's still working and still up and running and people are,

are still sending a questions and, and trying to use and you know, when you're trying to a sender, there are questions to, to show i have there's issues and their problems fixed up, so yeah, like i said, it's going to be interesting and organizer say, sure to say we don't want to keep it as an obtaining. yeah. and i was being told that library put in is coming out to the stage. so soviet, let's, let's here to the president directly. when you have a problem cheney beauty, to hear the call center of my heart of our, with the limit up q and a session today from last year operators. you can see the numbers you can use to call us or send text or, and the message messages. or if you want to talk to the president,

the claim. you can use most new mobile and this is going to be a video. maybe you'll be the one to get an answer from the president room, probably where the parts to the why 1000000 of our operators are working very hard . right now we already have 2000000 questions and they keep coming with people prefer phone calls. and of course messages, but many people also are using the mobile app. it was downloaded over 615 times we started accepting question was 10 days back. and some of them already mean address. as you know, legend pigeon usually can answer from 70 to 80 questions. so what happens to the other questions were not sure. that's exactly what i would like to start with today because you've been with them. so in 2019 when we

had one of the direct lines, it was a full blown event. like this one. we received over 1000000 inquiries in question. sure. last year, when we combined a direct line event with the conference of the year, we had what year was it? well, i was a 1000000. so here's what i can tell you again. maybe that's a little bit when you're going to sell cars on the tell me, but i would like to say that we will do our best to take the best care possible of every question was familiar in 2019. it was approved north of 1000000 questions already. you know, 500000 have already been fully assessed and we gave response to some of them still thompson. i work in progress. one reason is that to properly respond to question,

we need to introduce changes to all law was mission. we need to so some related questions we need to change the at the bi shareable budgetary plan. so it's a lot of work and that would be impossible to do. all of that. we haven't had the helping hand of the all russia people's front teeth. all those are going eyes ation who joined the effort to help us out the local administration. the regional authorities, federal government are we all been working hard to help people and they are all that great help to me because these are questions we should directed at me. and here's something i want to say to the volunteers and all those people into it. i'm going to read them couple who have volunteers to slow up like take these questions even though i want to thank you. i want to thank you. on behalf of the people of russia, these questions they directed at me as i said,

but you are the ones who are like mediators in least doing this work for all of us . so i hope that these kind of work we will have these direct line. so we will get down to businesses and send them with us for our conversation here. hope i will be able to answer some of the questions and maybe solve some of the problems that people might come to me with. thank you for your slot, but lose lubbock lucy recently for our viewers, for sharing. just as you see, we have some language interpretation on the public television of russia and i will not so let's start with the questions. everyone is very concerned about the new wave, of course. we've seen in the stations and people really want to know some things about it. for example, when comes to vaccination,

it used to be voluntary, but now it seems to be mandatory and most going, some other region. we have any big events, even though there's european championship in not in football. i think it's simple enough. now you mentioned you are 2020 these you have a sporting event with this. can you sna this, your 1st and foremost we to comply with the obligations we embraced as a state. you can use that to organize and to hold these large scale sporting events and overall parisha. there is nothing previous simpler than most of the situation. just take a look at the laws that we have. we really my go, i don't go back in the day. i said that there will be no compulsory work nation. i know we support any search decision and i still hold on to least believe that we should have no critic mandatory obligation,

but look at the law of the 998 that she has to do with the inoculation. nick, it has 2 parts. one is the calendar, the shadel of all the scenes, which is compulsory. yes, this is the kind of compulsive vaccination that we always have had here. some colleagues, books and suggested that we should take this call the 19 vaccine and of what, what the threat include them into the vaccination shadow. the national vaccination shadow, as we call it the put the and you put the m p 's. they did not support this decision, the more so the more, you know, please section of the law which deals with the national vaccination calendar does not include corporate 19 vaccines and therefore it is not compulsory correct. now.

the 2nd part is with the autumn, still says that a country experiences a surgeon of the pandemic, an epidemic in any of the regions and the health authorities at the region which you can use. mandatory vaccination for some certain groups of people the norm with especially the most vulnerable depot. and that's what we've been doing is you know, as you can see, some of the governors did introduce search obligatory vaccination for some certain most of all normal groups of people that fully comply with the law signed off on 998. so i believe there are no inconsistency here. it's perfectly in order. we just follow the law and that's it. one of the only one is is there going to be a lot down national one. now that's a different matter. and our colleagues who did you in the, in the 2nd or not,

but i would then regions should still use obligatory vaccinations are aimed at avoiding lockdown because a lockdown because i'm aid that slammed the brakes on the economy. be this is close down. small, medium sized inter penis, they go bankrupt and the real disposable income goes down as well. so in order to prevent that, some of the regions decided to introduce these new instruction. this isn't for people who are special while they're both of these in the section. i think these had been discussed, need new internally to new, quiet bonded lead me much into media on tv because we've heard it all that in order to prevent further booker academic, we need to not to get a shot, we all need to get a shot. we have, for vaccines already highly advanced there. absolutely save and use efficient and effective. so i hope that all the pressures that some people feel

hold onto will be dispelled, and soon the nation will go and as planned, we have over 20000000 people who have already received their chart. and that's good to do with. luckily, we've had no major side effects. like we seated some other countries off to pfizer or asked us and you could look seems like, well, that's reassuring me to the correct person. we all know that you set an example when it comes to the vaccination. here we have a question, it came in a text message review any the tell us the truth when you have the president been vaccinated or not? why has there been no video, but everyone really wants to know which vaccine you pick. you good. i probably know why the obvious question. i did that on purpose. i didn't want to say what you were seeing you can use because people would think that one is better and some of the

other one is would you are. but yes, there are a lot of questions and i know that for the v do, well i don't think it's that important to record it all and then broadcast it's nationwide. and if that would be not my shout, but some other part of the body, i certainly would that be know, have to shoot as well know some, some people, some groups they avoid making you look, see some doctors, they really can do that. they help them, they check something else, stop the receipt itself. i hope that is not going to happen at any slight scale. most of the people hopefully understand that vaccine is the only way forward. people will be doing any nice little to fraudulent saying i for one, i did it. my 1st shot is february for mobile, and there were only 2 scenes api lot corona produced by with your vector based in north supers and we put nick v. yes. so, you know, everyone knows about,

they're both pretty good. the tissue now we have another why we have what connections. at that time, it was not rolled out. i could do any of them. you can run them as soon as you that my seen it. i didn't even discuss it with doctors. i just look at my peers in friends or somebody and. and again, they want to stress it that both succeeds are very good and the teacher that to produce a synthetic one. it's advanced norco, highly technological. but looking at my peers, and i shouldn't say that, but let me just explain my line of reasoning this like seen even yet, it's not that it's active in the long term. it has its own, you know, can you prose after it, there are no side effect and no, nothing and no temperature rising up for a period of time or any other complications they're just rolled out or so

i knew that i need to be protected for as long as possible, so my decision was to get a new tab on the actually, so our mail to you they use would need to be, well, i'm the supreme matter too. so it was my only obligation that you to, to do that after the 1st shot. i didn't experience 80, think just or well, will the sure shot, speechless, but you the place of the shop was made for some time before it's now the 2nd shot. i did it at 12 a man. i had some slight temperature in the morning. it was $36.00, which is just the right temperature for a healthy man. in town or 20 days. of course, i did a task and i had a very high count of antibodies that said,

even somebody come in and i do recommend to take a shot and did he shrunk? no, i was just infected. and it's too early for me, a me or a ministry of house released recommendations. and i have to wait for 6 months or even 12 months because i have not true, anybody's no more than that. yes, we have these guidelines from the health ministry and the way to come in there are well the health and i is ation issue to some guidelines, which is to say that if you have an open dentist on your hands that you can do another shot in 12 months, but when it's on the rise, when you have an op 2 cases, then it is advisable to get your 3rd shot in 6 months. that's what the w h o sam look up. well, i'll do that. awesome. then it wasn't easy for you. yes, it was

a mild infection. it's really scary to see how bad some of the cases are in the report. maybe sometimes even people who vaccinated to get coffee 19 around 10 percent of them would be precise, but they have a very simple easy for simple format and they have no complications. and that's the most important thing, because if you contract with 1900, then you may encounter some long term consequences. they can be rob a while, the troubling and so you can do another shot when our do the deal is pretty new. i think hearing you say that now everyone is going to run to their clinic to get a new shot. well, there's also a question of effectiveness. are they good against the new strains? it's a 3. yes. 10 percent of the people in average, they do contract the virus by haven't been vaccinated, but it's very,

very mild. and some pretty famous people. you probably know them. i will give you a new name which date contract virus even do they vaccinated. we could go, one of my colleagues did are contract the virus yesterday. he woke up and running and some of my relatives, they unfortunately also protected the virus, but it was pretty easy on them. so they did not require any special treatment, any madsen and it's just someone i know about the vaccination aids essential to again, charlotte, as you probably know, the cram and we held a special event to give the middle of the road to our side to new york to create those who created this, maxine and i want to say something i heard from them by the way they are saying

they feel the time that the virus can be a huge below to your health. and there might be a long term consequences for your health. so think about it and they should bear that in mind. you get to what you should when you, when people who think we should and do any vaccines at all, anti faxes, some called the lisa vaccine do, said that we have a lot of them here. well, globally, there is a lot of people like that show can believe what when we have master vaccination sweeping vaccination, then it might be all good food and there is no need to do seen some people think after that because there's no disease there is no virus but as soon as the overall vaccination level goes down, when it reaches some certain threshold here you have an outbreak on people of ronnie stumping in each other to get their shot. but it's too late. so we should

lisa museum carefully. not to those people who do not understand about these things . who believe rumors that we should listen to professionals? so it happens all the well, it's some say there is no such a virus. those nope, and dad, nick, people do say good for some people. adults. well educated people, they said out loud, i don't know if, where did they get to that? it happens a little the well, yes, it's check on your son for you all the lead is a little well agreed upon. can you imagine that lady to look, you have a lot of inconsistencies, while people believe it because some people really think it's it's of lab origin. well, it's different matter. was it created by saw one or on itself? it's a different question about what we need to address now is how we can protect those cells. you did, can check the virus. now you feel fine. you want to feel 5 going forward. well,

you need to do that. you seem to be perfectly in order. you seem to be healthy, but some people will come or beat it is and with some problems with the people of advanced age, their risk and for them, these are called the 1900 virus, a for the dangerous it's life threatening. and then what do you see is not life threatening? there is no major side effect. so yes, i had some slight fever and it was ellwood, not 37. my daughter she had 37.5 for one day just for one day. and that's it. it all just went away. you can go in and actually see what she had done. okay, let me tell you a little bit how we're going to proceed today. we've already received 2000000 questions. thank you for coming. here are the main major was hoping that we grouped those questions into and we can choose

anything with questions from a particular topic here you can see health care. everyone is curious about cold, about drug availability and so on. just point you thing. good. okay, let's look at the vaccination cove. it's 19. here are the locations that we received questions from, but i think the minute but will not be no different than they are in different formats. some are stuck with messages. some are video called video messages. ok, let's have one from moscow. yes, go ahead. work. hello, i'm you again. you're with golf. moscow fool. hello, this is muslim school. you me, my wife is a teacher was in 11 of the most high school office. and she has

contract indication. and that's why she can't get the vaccine. however, the principal says that she has to otherwise she wouldn't be fired. how legal is that goes against? a lot of you adults told her that she cannot exceed right now that she could not wish to be face with such demands. no one can demand from her that she gotten a chance. maybe the authorities might be the leadership of the place. she works. they just don't know that but even is against the law. why they can't hear. ok, let's have one more on this topic. here's one from you. we this is this person contract because on the one god, well there was the rehab. and one of the places where you

go to, there were no free spot and the other place told him, it's going to cost you $15000.00. or can you? yes, that's who you need to rehab. and we are currently working on this issue. i see in russia very concept rehab that as part of the al good system and usually charles people to recover from his we've never had it does not do well in the years ceasar we had retreats and such as well. we had retreats that too, but mostly resorts. and we had a lot of things back in the day to the soviet union. there was no coven. yeah, even though we had some other diseases and the soviet union, the vaccination burgers was quite, quite strict. almost everything was compulsory. did anyone know the were asked whether you wanted to do it? no, they just gave you shots and data sets. sure. you to process what you of course i

was just a regular boy from my working family when you don't ask me what i wanted. so that was not convenient, but there was a keys and we got all the shots. and that said, that was that the labeling, but the situation the health care situation was pretty stable. but i'm going to was out of the soviet union collapsed to the vaccination. the social systems day legal . jimmy died out and with some of the issues we are discussing now. well, we have to revise them shift for william club, which will be investing heavily in this area. we've allocated more a sizable amount of money to contract. sure. object in the re have system. so that we will have all the equipment because we have foss cover it. we have, it requires some, you know, show equipment. we're going to have for the 3 system,

your blood vessels. and therefore, if you need to, we didn't have access to special equipment, but it look of allocated the money for the money that those people demanded. and i don't know why not with the concrete missile, which i think we can look at each separate case individually, and they will find them as much as you want. we can contact the author the question from only we'll try to contact him during our session. i think we can do that now. the money we did, and i mentioned to him, we've allocated that money in this system is being constructed. there's nothing wrong. ok, let's go to the call center natalia quinn with my thank you so much. do we have so many questions coming here to 1000000? let me see where are they coming from moscow?

we don't know who is on the line here and of.