President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference on Friday, which was once again folded into his televised “Direct Line” call-in show, fielding a wide range of questions, from the Ukraine war, road repairs and tax increases to reports of phone fraud, low birthrates and even the possibility of contact with extraterrestrial life. At the start of the press conference portion of the highly choreographed event, which lasted over four hours this year,
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