The document is a coding sheet for summarizing questions asked during Priamaia Liniia broadcasts. It provides categories for coders to classify information about the question, person asking, topic, and Vladimir Putin's response. The sample question coded comes from a 2006 broadcast, and concerns agricultural issues in Russia. The man asking is a lead engineer from a village in Orenburg Oblast. Putin provides a very detailed response acknowledging the issues farmers face, and refers to existing government programs and policies to support agriculture.

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PL Project Coding Sheet (Version 1; Jan 19)
Notes for coders: Pleasefill out one sheet for each question asked in given year’s priamaia liniia
broadcast.
In each of the sub-sections, you can mark multiple items in this section, if applicable. You can highlight the
appropriatesection and add text, if appropriate. E.g. mark 3.1. and 3.4, if the question concerns jobs, and
add something brief: "personlost job." In sections: “other” feel free to specify and add notes on particularsof
the question/response/media interaction.
I. Basic information/identifiers
1.1. Year: Oct. 25, 2006
1.2. Segment No./youtube link to segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkW3ovNO4OY
1.3. Question No. THIRTEEN
1.4. How does question come in? Via call center, internet, live link to city/village?
Q13: It was very often recently said that farmers will succeed in feeding the
country. They did not succeed. They for instance did acquire/ invest in new
technologies by which they were able to provide for people, but only part of all of
society.. many are left jobless.. are lonely.. and drink… is there a gov. program in
place to take us out from this agricultural crisis? and are there new methodologies/
processes relatedto agricultural production efficiency and labor that could provide
better lives for farmers and for their livelihood?
[ 0:47:37 - 0:53:16 ]
II. Person asking question
2.1 Geographic location? село подгородняя покровка, оренбургская область
Orenburskaya Oblast (bordering Kazakhstan)
2.2 Urban/rural
2.3 Age: Under 25, 25-50, over 50 (best judgement)
2.4 Gender: F / M
2.5 Profession: lead engineer of (хозяйства..can mean a farm, or some sort of
establishment)
2.6 Russian/ non-Russian ethnicity; identified or not identified?
2.7 If yes, what it is? ________________
III. Issue/topic raised by person asking question
3.1. Economic issues? (Y/N)
3.2. Pensions
3.3 Salaries
3.4. Jobs
3.5. Corruption
3.6. Property (property disputes, land ownership, other property)
3.7. Privatization (dispute, clarification, etc.)
3.8. Other economic ________ (agriculture)
4.1 Political and legal issue (Y/N)

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4.2. Local authorities; unresponsive or other problems
4.3. Police/secret service
4.4. Laws, problems with implementation of laws, legal wrongs?
4.5. Courts
4.6. Elections
4.7. Protests
4.8 Other political issue ______
5.1. Social issues (Y/N)
5.2. Immigration (CIS or non-CIS
5.3. Narcotics (drinking… not focus of question, but is mentioned)
5.4. Schools, universities, education
5.5. Hospitals/healthcare
5.6. Orphans
5.7. Housing services
OTHER: general livelihood of farmers
5.8 Personal question about VV Putin’s family
Y/N
6.1. Foreign Relations/Wars
6.2. Concerning US
6.3. Concerning the EU/Eastern Europe
6.4. Concerning China
6.5. Concerning other CIS countries?
6.6. Other?
7. Geographical Scope of Question?.... not sure… may be only talking about his village,
but I think his question is concerned with farmers all over Russia
7.1 Personal/family only
7.2. Village
7.3. Oblast/krai
7.4. Fed. okrug/other larger region
7.5. Federal/all of Russia
7.6. Not specified
IV. Response by VVP (Y/N)
8.1. Acknowledges problem
8.2. Makes a promise
8.3. Suggests a solution
8.4. Clarifies the situation (specify how he does this? legal facts, statistics, other)
- very detailed in what programs exist/ what they do.. figs/ stas
8.5. Refers to existing Russian laws /(programs)
8.6. Refers to existing policies and reforms underway YES
8.7. Refers to foreign examples (specify: positive, negative, which country)
8.8. Does he seem to adjust response to child/pensioner/other special case? (i.e. polite,
simpler in his terms?)
8.9. Other types of responses? Describe: such programs do exist of course; -

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supports his statement using percents/ figs..
9.0 Additional notes on VVP response:
- during reply, VVP notices that man is smiling (as gesture of
acknowledgment ofwhat VVP just said), and says, you are nodding your
head, I am sure you feel this pressure - all farmers feel this pressure..
- man says thank you, smiling (ppl around/ behind him in the crowd also
smile)
- very comprehensive response.. brings up overarching issues not brought up
by man, but issues that do relate to general concern of man (or farmers
broadly speaking)
-VVP completes response, and then Kirill in room says lets continue/ stay at
село подгородняя покровка b/c most of sites/ questions will be from cities,
not villages.. then VVP jumps in before reporter at site starts talking,
apologizes to reporter, and adds more information addressing the man’s
question (clarifying info)
V. Representation of the Media/reporters’ role before or after this question
(Y/N)
10.1 Do reporters make references to imperatives of live broadcast with technical details?
10.2. Do reporters make references to weather/geographic details in their intro?
10.3. Is there an exchange between reporters and VVP?
10.4. Is VVP deferring to reporters as authorities?
10.5 How are reporters interacting with the public? mic … as he approaches to man,
man reaches out with hand and then quickly pulls back his arm as Sergei, reporter,
says reassuringly “No, its ok, I’ll hold the microphone”
10.6 Are reporters mentioning additional details/statistic/information?
10.7. Other remarks by reporters?
man asking question -- has hid hands clasped together in front of him, and never
looks up at the camera, is only looking at the mic at chest level…