MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. The Kremlin will officially announce the date of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s combined annual press conference and direct Q&A session later, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS, replying to a question about the event’s possible timeframe.

"We will officially announce the date in due time," the Kremlin official said.

Earlier, Peskov told TASS that the Kremlin will use artificial intelligence among other tools to collect questions for the Direct Line with Putin two weeks before the event.

Putin has been holding his annual televised Direct Line question-and-answer session with Russian citizens since 2001. In recent years, it was combined with his year-end press conference with Russian and international journalists. The combined event was dubbed the "Year-End Recap with Vladimir Putin.".