The Kremlin’s latest reports on Vladimir Putin’s meetings with politicians contain a number of inconsistencies, indicating that they were published with a significant time delay.
This was pointed out by journalists of the Faridaily project.
The practice of such “delayed” publications is not new: it is regularly used by the Kremlin and allows it to create the illusion that Putin is working continuously. Recently, however, the time between actual meetings and the publication of reports on them has increased.
For example, at a meeting held, according to official Kremlin records, on November 12, Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, tells Putin that his party is “actively involved” in preparing the budget. At the same time, the draft federal budget was submitted to the Duma on September 30, approved in the first reading on October 24, and in the second reading on November 14.
There are also inconsistencies in time. For example, the leader of the LDPR faction Leonid Slutsky on the day of the meeting with Putin (according to the official version) spoke in the State Duma, and less than 2.5 hours later the Kremlin published a transcript of his conversation with the Russian president.
Faridaily’s sources say that recently the delay in publishing reports of Putin’s meetings on the Kremlin’s website can be as long as two months. Putin last appeared in public on Nov. 7 at the Valdai Forum, and since then the Kremlin has only published video messages and bilateral meetings.