Peskov: Putin preferred the match of the Russian national team for Euro 2016 "Lenfilm" because it is better

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday, June 21, refused to comment on the game of the Russian national team at the European Football Championship, although he admitted that he really wanted to do this.

The Kremlin spokesman said that the head of state Vladimir Putin did not watch the match Russia - Wales on Monday, in which the Russians lost 0: 3 with a disgrace score, after which they drew from participation in Euro 2016. “Yesterday, the president did not watch the match - during the match, he attended (film studio) Lenfilm,” Peskov, which is quoted by TASS.

The preference made by Putin in favor of the film studio, Peskov, not without sarcasm, explained by the fact that "we can definitely say that things with the revival and restoration of Lenfilm are much better and more effective than the game that we saw in the performance of our players yesterday." “Therefore, the president did not look,” he explained.

“I do not consider myself the right to comment, although, of course, I really want to. That's all I can say,” the press secretary concluded. He also refused to answer the question whether Leonid Slutsky would continue to work as a Russian football team coach after such a grand failure.

Putin on Monday just during the demonstration of the Russia -Wales match visited the Lenfilm film studio, where he got acquainted with the modern process of domestic film production. The head of state was also introduced to the unique exhibits of the museum. Seeing the piano of the XVIII century, which is in a frustrated state, Putin could not resist and played a fragment of the composition "Moscow windows" Tikhon Khrennikov on it.

The Lenfilm film studio, which was experiencing a crisis in the 1990s and early 2000s, began to reform in 2012. Over the past three years, more than 160 projects have been implemented at Lenfilm.

While Putin talked with the studio staff and played playing, at the stadium in the French city of Toulouse, the events dramatic for Russian fans were unfolding. The players of the Russian national team looked completely helpless on the field. Having lost to the Wales team in the match of the third round of the group stage of the European Championship, they stopped performing at a sports tournament. Before that, the team lost the Slovaki team (1: 2) and tied with the England team (1: 1).