"Okay, I'll think about it, thank you," Putin replied.
In early June, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that this issue was not on Kremlin's agenda.
In an interview with US filmmaker Oliver Stone that was aired in June, Putin declined to comment on whether he would run for president in 2018.
Speaking at the Sirius children’s center in Sochi on July 21, Putin said that he had not decided yet on whether or not he would run for the post the following year.
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