Investigative news outlet Proekt reported last week that President Vladimir Putin has built two identically appointed offices for video linkups, one at a government residence outside Moscow and the second on the warmed-up shores of the Black Sea, a traditional vacation area. Putin has access to a number of official residences, including the site outside Moscow, Novo-Ogaryovo, and a presidential retreat in Sochi, Bocharov Ruchey. Having the two offices, he wrote, was “absolutely Putin’s style — to lie even in the little things.”Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the presidential work spaces outside Moscow and in Sochi are not identical. “The president has many offices and no identical offices,” Peskov said. One site that republished the story, T Journal, elicited hundreds of comments from readers poring over photos of Putin, suited and seriously conducting state business, seated in similarly appearing offices.

Source: bd News24 December 13, 2020 20:37 UTC