MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a uncommon apology on Thursday when a pensioner complained to him in regards to the value of eggs.
Throughout Putin’s end-of-year query and reply session with the media and with members of the general public calling in from throughout Russia, pensioner Irina Akopova was proven seated at her kitchen desk and addressing the president by video hyperlink.
She complained that costs for eggs, rooster breasts and wings had all skyrocketed.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich, take pity on pensioners! We do not get tens of millions in our pensions. Kind this out – we have now nobody to show to,” she stated. “I am very grateful to you, I am relying on you to assist.”
The query mirrored actual concern amongst Russians at the price of dwelling, and got here after Putin had already acknowledged that inflation could strategy 8% this yr.
“I apologise for this, however this can be a failure of the federal government’s work… I promise that the scenario can be corrected within the close to future,” Putin stated.
The marathon Q+A is a format that provides Putin the prospect to point out he’s sympathetic with atypical folks’s worries and is ordering the related officers to type them out.
The federal government this week stated it might exempt 1.2 billion eggs from import responsibility within the first half of subsequent yr to attempt to rein in costs which have risen greater than 40% this yr.
A few of those that introduced their issues to the president acquired prompt options throughout Thursday’s session.
Minutes after a bunch of younger boys complained to Putin in regards to the dilapidated state of their sports activities corridor in Crimea, TV anchor Pavel Zarubin stated volunteers from the Russian-annexed territory had referred to as in and promised to renovate it.
(Reporting by Reuters, writing by Mark Trevelyan; Enhancing by Gareth Jones)
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