Putin insists on Russia’s Ukraine conditions in four-hour press conference

The “direct line” to Vladimir Putin: There were sandwiches with sausage, bruschetta with lightly salted trout, pies with meat, potatoes and apple jam. Culinary delights for the journalists present; this time a few from the so-called “unfriendly countries” were also invited. For the people in the country there was no buffet, but rather a feeling: Yes, there is a “direct line” between me and my president.