В.Путин.Интернет-конференция.06.07.06.Part 1

Interactive Webcast with the President of Russia
July 6, 2006. Part 1
The Kremlin, Moscow

Интернет-конференция Президента России
6 июля 2006 года
Москва, Кремль

SVETLANA MIRONIUK: Hello! I am Svetlana Mironiuk from RIA Novosti and we are beginning our interactive webcast with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is taking place in the Kremlin.

Hello Vladimir Vladimirovich!

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon!

SVETLANA MIRONIUK: Today many millions of Internet users from countries all over the world have the opportunity to ask you their questions.

And I would like to introduce two famous journalists who will ask the President of Russia questions on behalf of Internet users.

Correspondent Bridget Kendall represents the BBC and correspondent of the TV channel Russia Today Aleksandr Gurnov represents the site Yandex.ru.

During this week many questions from Internet users were asked on the Russian Yandex site and the English BBC site. As of today we have received about 150,000 questions.

A few words about the structure of our online webcast.

Mr President will answer three groups of questions.

The first are questions that received the most number of votes on the sites. In other words the questions that Internet users consider to be the most important and the most topical. However, not all of them will be given to the President since the day before the webcast there were flash-mob actions that resulted in an artificial increase in the votes for some questions.

The second group of questions are those that Bridget and Aleksandr will choose.

And finally, Vladimir Vladimirovich, we hope that you will choose some questions and answer them yourself.

We continue to gather questions as they arrive on our websites. For that reason you have the opportunity to send the President a question and to receive a live answer.

Bridget, please go ahead.

BRIDGET KENDALL: Thank you Svetlana. President Putin, thank you very much for taking part in this interactive webcast with the BBC's global audience. There's been an enormous response so far from our international audience and so far we have received over 5,000 separate questions.

Many of them concern foreign affairs and our first question is from Guiseppe from South Korea who is asking about the latest missile launch by North Korea. How dangerous do you consider it is for the region's security and what are you, in Russia, prepared to do about it?

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I wish I could speak Russian. It sounds good, very intelligent !!

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