Vladimir Putin question and answer live session in Russia.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a big press conference on Thursday, December 15, to answer questions from Russian citizens.

Putin answered all acute questions. "I have no doubt about that. He never ignores burning questions," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "As a rule, he selects a pile of blitz questions on the eve to answer them during the press conference."

Peskov said the press conference would be open-ended and not limited in time.

Questions were accepted by a special call centre, the Internet and SMS messages. More than 10,000 questions have already been received. Peslov said most of the questions concerned social security, housing, labor legislation and salaries. Some of the questions also concerned human rights and domestic policies, reported ITAR-TASS.