Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had never personally seen Russian leader Vladimir Putin playing computer games.
“I’m not aware that the president plays computer games. “I’ve never seen or heard that from him,” said Peskov.
The previous day, while visiting an exhibition at Moscow’s Zotov Center, Putin joked that he played computer games on weekdays, not weekends.
“I play (video games – socialbites.ca) on weekdays,” said Putin, answering a question from Vasily Ovchinnikov, head of the organization responsible for the development of the video game industry.
The day before, the Russian leader visited the cultural and educational cluster in the Zotov center in Khodynka. Examining the stand of the Extra Cinema company, the company’s general manager Pyotr Chiryaev suggested to the president the idea of equipping about 20,000 cultural centers with movie theaters. Putin supported this idea, he calls it “great”.