BBC's Steve Rosenberg challenges Putin on his 25-year rule of Russia

The BBC's Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, has challenged Vladimir Putin connected whether helium has "taken care" of Russia during his 25-year rule.

At the president's yearly end-of-year property conference, Rosenberg reminded Putin astir however his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, told him to instrumentality attraction of the state erstwhile helium handed implicit power.

In response, Putin said Russia had "regained its sovereignty".