“2022 in general in Russia will be even better than our preliminary calculations,” RIA Novosti quotes Putin as saying at a meeting with the governor of the Arkhangelsk region Alexander Tsybulsky.

Earlier it became known that Putin will send a message to the Federal Assembly on February 21.

According to the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, the focus will be on the special operation, the economy and social problems.