© kremlin.ruPutin faces the media at his end-of-year press conference in December
Vladimir Putin's long-serving press secretary Dmitry Peskov has revealed the Russian president "gets more nervous than anyone" before his marathon live Q&A sessions, and said the president's trademark responses are "improvised."
Peskov was asked about the traditional end-of-year press conference, in which Putin spends hours fielding questions from domestic and international journalists on a dizzying array of global and localized issues, and acknowledged that "few sleep well the night before."
"The person who gets more nervous than anyone, I feel, is Putin himself," said Peskov, who moderated the 3 hour 40 minute session in December, as in previous years.
Peskov said he used to "live in fear of the president being put on the spot."
"There are no difficult questions for Putin," Peskov told Rossiya 1 channel. "Maybe I find them uncomfortable, but he easily deals with everything that he is asked about."
Comment: The more the Deep State pushes its egregious lies, the more people turn away from their propaganda outlets. Eventually, and probably in the not too distant future, they'll only be talking to themselves and the people whose brains have been melted by believing their lies.