Breaking with custom, Putin gained’t maintain his annual December news convention.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not going to maintain his marathon December news convention this 12 months, breaking with an annual custom that dates again to the early years of his presidency.

Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, advised reporters throughout a each day briefing on Monday that the occasion wouldn’t happen, though he held out the chance that it is likely to be rescheduled for the brand new 12 months.

The transfer comes as Russia’s financial system falters underneath sanctions and follows a sequence of great army losses for Moscow’s marketing campaign in Ukraine. Mr. Peskov didn’t give a motive as to why the news convention wouldn’t be held, however famous that Mr. Putin “regularly speaks to the press, including on foreign visits.” Those appearances are restricted to the pool of reporters recurrently assigned to the Kremlin, nevertheless.

Often stretching to 4 hours or extra, the December news convention is among the few occasions throughout the 12 months when reporters exterior the Kremlin pool, together with international correspondents, get the possibility to ask Mr. Putin questions straight. Mr. Putin has held 17 of the news conferences since 2001 — he has once in a while skipped one — and so they have grow to be a set piece on his calendar, together with different occasions just like the nationwide call-in present within the early summer season when he fields questions from unusual Russians.