ST. PETERSBURG, November 17. /TASS/. The Kremlin will traditionally collect questions from Russians for the upcoming combined Direct Line (annual televised question-and-answer session) and annual press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"Of course. In advance," he said in response to a question from TASS.

According to Peskov, the period for collecting questions will be even longer, so that the maximum number of people could send appeals. "We will work on all previous channels of information collection. It will be the phone. And it will be possible to send an SMS, and to record audio and video," he said.