Kremlin says it knows nothing about Vladimir Putin's plan to announce re-election bid next month

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a media report that said that Putin could announce his re-election bid next month.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it knew nothing about a report in the Kommersant newspaper that Russian President Vladimir Putin could announce next month that he will run for office again in a presidential election set for March.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters)

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking to reporters in a telephone briefing.