Putin stopped appearing in public after the elections, – RosSMI

Over the past two weeks, there has not been a single outdoor event on Putin’s schedule.

After the elections , Russian leader Vladimir Putin returned to the lifestyle he led before the start of the election campaign. He again rarely leaves the Kremlin and his residences. As the Agency writes , over the past two weeks there has not been a single outdoor event on the president’s schedule.

According to the publication, from the start of the presidential election campaign on December 8 to April 20, the Kremlin announced 100 off-site events with the participation of Putin. In particular, 31 events outside the Kremlin and presidential residences took place in the last pre-election month, from February 17 to March 17. During this time, Putin managed to visit the Chelyabinsk region, Tatarstan, Stavropol and Krasnodar territories.

However, in the last week before the elections (March 11-17), Putin did not travel outside the Kremlin or Novo-Ogarevo.

Since the election, Putin’s travel numbers have dropped significantly.

During the month from March 17 to April 17, only 10 events were reported outside the Kremlin and residences, one of them was a concert in honor of the annexation of Crimea, which took place the day after the elections. Only once a month did Putin leave the Moscow region.

The president’s activity has fallen especially sharply in the last two weeks. Since April 5 (on this day a dam broke in Orsk), Putin has participated in only two online meetings dedicated to eliminating the consequences of the flood and one online meeting with the government on the implementation of Russian software, had video calls with the governors of several regions and Crimea, and also received in the Kremlin, Alexander Lukashenko and several officials. He also spoke on the phone with the heads of Iran and Kazakhstan. All these events took place in the Kremlin or Novo-Ogarevo, the Agency notes.

Putin has not made a single trip over the past two weeks. In particular, on April 10, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the head of state would not travel to flood-affected regions. For this, Putin was criticized on social networks.

As the Agency recalls, in the last year before the elections, Putin reduced his trips to a minimum. In 2023, he spent only 147 days in public. The rest of the time, he did not travel outside his residences, and neither journalists nor anyone other than close officials and loyal politicians were invited to his meetings.

(C)UNIAN 2024