Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Putin's double Held the Meeting with "War Correspondents"

Although #Russian President Vladimir Putin did have a desire to attend a meeting with "war correspondents" in person, he was dissuaded by people close to him and by his attending physicians.
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A few days before the event, the president and his assistant drew up a detailed outline of practically all the questions that the "war correspondents" were going to ask. The president's double studied the presidential prescriptions set out in the outline with...
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genuine enthusiasm, as people privy to it say. In the evening before the event, the double took an "exam" recorded on camera by the Federal Protection Officer official, who asked questions on the topics outlined in the lecture book randomly.
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In the end, everyone was satisfied with the result, and even #Putin, who was provided with a video of the "exam", admitted that the understudy was quite ready for such a format. In fact, all thoughts, emotions, narratives and experiences of the president, concerning...
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all the topics that the "military correspondents" were going to raise during the meeting, were communicated to the understudy and taken by him as their own. Yesterday, it was the president's double who held the meeting with the "war correspondents".
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Before the meeting, he was provided with up-to-date information and corrected a few nuances about the changed situation at the time. Although the double often "dangled" his eyes upwards and tried to remember the details given in the outline on this or that issue...
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(note that it happened quite often), on the whole, the meeting went well, and he was able to play it off quite well and more or less clearly convey #Putin's own position. There were, of course, worrying moments for the understudy when he was asked a question about...
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the "grain deal" for which he had not been prepared for, and he honestly blurted out straight away that he was not prepared for such a question, saying: "This is an unexpected question for me. I didn't expect to hear such a question."
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Nevertheless, the double answered in the same manner as #Putin. In general, the president himself and those close to him were positive about the appearance of the double in such a format.
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