Kommersant: "Quantitative analysis of Vladimir Putin’s speech"
Computer Centre
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's third report to parliament lasted a record four hours and three minutes. He spent two hours and 13 minutes on the report as such.
In the remaining time, Putin listened and replied to deputies' questions and made concluding remarks. His first report on April 6, 2009 lasted only 75 minutes, and his second one on April 20, 2010 lasted 80 minutes.
Putin's main speech and concluding remarks contained 15,025 words, 1,180 sentences and 93,360 letters. In 2009, the prime minister said only 7,118 words (44,142 letters) to the Duma, and only 9,111 words (56,531 letters) in 2010.
The word "year" and its derivatives were the most frequently used words (215 times). The word "Russia" was next (96 times) and the word "rouble" came third (78 times). The fourth word in the list was "necessary" (56 times) and the fifth word was "now" (54 times). The text's analysis shows that Putin used the word "modernisation" twice as often as "innovation" (22 versus 11), and spoke about "the economy" three times as much as "politics" (41 versus 14). The prime minister pronounced the word "we" 247 times and "I" only 72 times.
After delivering the speech, Putin replied to 12 questions from deputies – three from each parliamentary party. The same number of questions was asked after his previous reports. He used 3,197 words in his replies compared to 3,084 words in 2009 and 3,727 words in 2010. The most frequently used words he used were "billion" (18 times), "necessary" (17 times) and "will" (16 times).
