Something Goes Wrong: Strange Meanings Found In Putin's Speech

• 3.01.2024, 8:09

So Medvedev was urgently released into the arena.

This year, Vladimir Putin's New Year's Eve speech lasted 3 minutes and 39 seconds. The speech of 2024 was record short and significantly different from last year's.

Political technologist Mikhail Sheitelman said about this to "Channel 24".

If we look back to 2023, the President of the Russian Federation managed to talk for 9 minutes. It was full of specifics, important words.

"For example, "Donbass", "NATO", "aggression", "military". Phrases like 'we have defended', 'we are fighting', 'we are winning'." There was an excursion into history. That was nine minutes. Now it's 3 minutes and 39 seconds of nothing. It was very strange," he said.

It is quite possible that the Kremlin later realised that "something had not gone according to plan". That's why Dmitry Medvedev was brought into the arena to save the situation. However, he almost repeated Putin's speech of 2023.