PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, February 6 A significant part of the preparations for Vladimir Putin's visit to China went online -mode, Vladislav Kitaev, head of the presidential protocol, told Pavel Zarubin on the air of Rossiya 1 in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program.
" -mode. Employees went to the site, organized a broadcast, and all interested employees of our protocol, our press service, our security watched what would happen on the day of the event. Expectations did not deceive us: it coincided", — said the head of state's protocol chief.
He recalled that since the beginning of the pandemic, most of the president's meetings have been held via video link. «It's always better to see than hear, so always, of course, it is better to personally visit in advance all the places where events are supposed to be attended by the president, but for two years now we have been living in the online world, in the world of cameras, and all this is 80 percent organized online. Whether it is or not, we are trying,” Kitaev added. He stressed that Putin “instantly” changed to such a mode of operation. The Russian President visited China on Friday. He held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and attended the opening ceremony of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. 
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