Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday making conclusions about Russians' interest in President Vladimir Putin's addresses to parliament taking into account only the Moscow audience and television was a wrong approach
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd February, 2019) Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday making conclusions about Russians' interest in President Vladimir Putin's addresses to parliament taking into account only the Moscow audience and television was a wrong approach.
According to Mediascope, about 870,000 Muscovites over four years old watched a televised broadcast of Putin's address to the Federal Assembly, while in 2018 the audience of the tv broadcast was over 1,000,000 Muscovites of the same age limits. Some experts have linked the low numbers on Moscow television viewing with a possible downgrade of the president's ratings.
"This is a very primitive approach to analysis, hasty and primitive. You can do it like this, but the situation is much more multifaceted ... To judge just by watching TV in Moscow and speak about ratings and the fall of something is quite primitive. Deeper analysis is needed," Peskov told reporters.
"It is important to analyze, perhaps, on the whole, figures for the country, and not only for Moscow. I think that this will be done in the coming days," he said.
