“This year it probably won't be, until the end of the year.

At least not yet planned, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Peskov, in Russia there is no legal obligation for the president to announce the message before the end of the calendar year.

“I would rather be guided by the beginning of the next one, as it was in the previous few years,” he said.

Earlier, the Kremlin said that Putin's annual press conference will take place on December 17.