Medvedev interview to be broadcast live on Dec 7 – newspaper

MOSCOW. Nov 27 (Interfax) – An interview with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will be broadcast live on Rossiya 1 television and Medvedev will be fielding questions from journalists representing Chanel One, VGTRK, NTV, REN TV and the Dozhd television station, business daily Kommersant wrote on Tuesday.

“Such interviews at the end of the year have become a tradition. The April interview, granted to journalists from five television companies, was a success and we have decided to do this again,” Medvedev’s spokesperson Natalya Timakova told Kommersant.

The televised interview will be intended for “the entire spectrum of TV viewers from conservatives to liberals,” she said.

Part of the interview will deal with this year’s results eight months after Medvedev assumed his “new duties,” she also said.

But the interview will mostly concentrate on plans for the future, Timakova said.

Since the interview will be broadcast live, no restrictions will be put on questions, as before, she said.

The live broadcast of Medvedev’s interview will begin at noon on December 7, and it will last an hour at minimum, although the duration is not limited, the daily writes.