Peskov “disappeared” after NYT interview: silent for the third week

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov has not held briefings or commented for the media since the beginning of August, a number of publications and telegram channels have noticed.

According to open data, the last briefing by a Kremlin spokesman was on August 4, and two days later his interview with The New York Times was published, which cited Peskov’s controversial statement about the elections as “not real democracy” and “expensive bureaucracy.” In the same place, he stated that next year Vladimir Putin would be re-elected with more than 90% of the vote.

On the day the interview was released, Peskov told the Russian media that his words had been misreported and misinterpreted. This comment was the last one at the moment, more than Peskov did not appear in the media.

At the same time, in the channel “Bloody lady” Ksenia Sobchak approvedthat Peskov’s silence was caused by his vacation.

“Peskov is on vacation. He said that he would return in 2 days,” the publication says.