Putin's four-hour Q&A is a valuable insight into the Russian president's version of reality

By Precious Chatterje-Doody, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University

Russian television audiences didn’t have much choice but to watch Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on December 14 – it was broadcast on all terrestrial TV networks. After a year’s hiatus in 2022, when the success of the Ukrainian autumn counteroffensive meant there was little good news to talk about, Putin returned to the airwaves for a four-hour press conference and phone-in Q&A session in which he answered pre-approved questions and boosted…

Read complete article

~	Beyond hot flushes: what menopause can do to your heart – and why it matters

~	Being taught by people who know stuff instead of prepared teachers risks our children’s futures

~	Trump’s ‘largely negotiated’ truce with Iran exposes a deeper crisis in U.S. strategic thinking

~	‘AI needs to be disarmed’: Pope Leo sees threat to humanity in technological arms race

~	How community groups, activists and local media turned Camden into a model of police reform

~	The sacred cloth at the center of the Hajj pilgrimage

~	You’ve been trying to get around Amazon – but it’s not that easy

~	Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

~	Chad: 10 Years On, Habré Conviction Inspires Global Justice

~	View from The Hill: would a ‘party of independents’ be a contradiction in terms?