The text of the interview is published on the website of the Kremlin.
“I feel that you are far from religion, because it is already past fifteen in the morning Moscow time, and you continue to torment me. As we say, there is no cross on you, ”Putin said.
Earlier, during the event in Simferopol, Putin ironically commented on the statement by the head of the Jewish community in the region, Benjamin Wolf, about financial problems, due to which the deadlines for completing the construction of a synagogue in Crimea are postponed.