Once Again, Putin Was Unable To Give An Interview Without Reading From A Teleprompter

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During a recent interview with propagandist Pavel Zarubin, Putin read his responses from a teleprompter for most of the conversation, speaking off the cuff only for the first five minutes. Afterward, he stared at a single point to the left of his interviewer and recited the text written by his speechwriters, noted Russian journalist Ilya Shepelin.

As Shelepin noted, the directors of the Kremlin film crew apparently took previous experience into account: this time they abandoned the shot from the camera positioned over Zarubin’s right shoulder, in which it was particularly noticeable that Putin’s gaze was directed not at his interlocutor but toward the prompter. Because of this, the standard layout for a dialogue scene (“figure-eight”) was disrupted during editing; however, it was still impossible to completely hide the fact that the president was reading from a script—the video clearly shows him coughing as he delivers his lines.

Meanwhile, on the Kremlin’s website, the article about the interview—with a headline inviting readers to see how Putin interacts with Zarubin—is accompanied by a photo in which the president is not looking at the journalist.

Earlier, several months ago, during a discussion on the gasoline crisis in Russia, Putin also read from a teleprompter, barely glancing at Zarubin, who was standing next to him.

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