According to reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin was cut off by Russian state television during an address to a large demonstration of the country’s citizens on the anniversary of the takeover of Crimea on Friday, March 18.
The Russian President was speaking when a state broadcast cut to patriotic tunes, according to the Russian website svoboda.org, causing bewilderment among viewers.
What had happened was unknown for some minutes. Putin had ended his speech in the stadium, according to a Kommersant correspondent, and it was no longer on the TV.
About 20 minutes later, “Russia-24” began to show Putin’s speech again. This time it was not interrupted – it turned out that after the interruption of the broadcast, the president spoke for only about 20 seconds.
