INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
second consecutive year that the setpiece event, where ordinary citizens ask the Russian leader to solve their daily problems, has not beeen
held in June.Several major political events involving Putin have been delayed, or scrapped altogether, amid the fighting in Ukraine and
Russian military reversals
on the battlefield in Ukraine.Ukraine is widely expected to mount a major counteroffensive against Russian forces in the coming weeks, with
attacks.Kommersant noted that the Kremlin wants to run the televised call-in before Putin launches his prsidential re-election campaign
