The controversial American journalist and TV presenter Taer Carlson, who was recently noticed in the capital of Russia, interviewed Vladimir Putin.
This information was confirmed by the Presidential President Dmitry Peskov.
This was Putin's first personal interview with a journalist from the West since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
According to Carlson, the interview will be shown in the unresolved form on his site Tucker Carlson Network, and later on the social network X, where the journalist has a significant audience.
Carlson expressed gratitude to the owner of the X Ilon Mask for the promise not to block the interview. He also stated that he was expecting censorship attempts by Western governments. "Of course, taking such risks is not easy," the journalist said.
Carlson has repeatedly expressed his condolences to Putin. His political views are response among many conservatively minded Americans who are not satisfied with the significant US support of Ukraine.
Shortly before the Russian invasion, Carlson expressed the opinion that "Hate of Putin became the main goal of America's foreign policy" and urged his viewers to think about why it happened.
"Did Putin ever call me a racist? Did he threaten me for disagreement with him?" Asked the journalist.
When Russian troops began to concentrate on the border with Ukraine, Carlson answered: "These are fair questions, and the answer to them: no. Vladimir Putin did nothing like that."
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he changed his position, declaring this war during one of the broadcasts: "Vladimir Putin began this war ... He is responsible for what we see in Ukraine today."
However, Carlson openly shows his antipathy to the President of Ukraine Zelensky, calling him a dictator and talking about it very negatively.
He accused the US media of "Corruption" because they do not seek to communicate with Putin, and instead are ready to publish an interview with Vladimir Zelensky, which he described as "undercreation conversations" that draw the United States into conflict in Eastern Europe.
"It's not journalism, but state propaganda," Carlson said.
The main TV presenter of CNN International News Christian Amanpur considers these statements to Carlson absurd. "This is absurd - we are constantly asking for interviews (with Putin), we have been doing it for many years," - quotes her British Daily Telegraph.
Steve Rosenberg, a BBC editor on Russia, confirms that the Air Force has been sending requests to the Kremlin over the past 18 months, but unsuccessfully.
According to Carlson, the organization of his interview with Putin lasted several months, and he does so solely to ensure that Americans can get different points of view.
"We are not here because of the love of Vladimir Putin, we are here because of our love for the United States and the desire to remain successful and free," Carlson said during his stay in Moscow.
"We do not urge you to agree with what Putin can say in this interview, but we urge you to see him," he said. "You should know as much as possible, and then, as a free citizen, not a slave, you will be able to decide yourself."
According to Carlson, a war that changes the world is ongoing in Ukraine, but Americans know too little about it.
Carlson also added that he asked for an interview with Vladimir Zelensky.
Carlson's Taler Information: On the top of the popularity in the United States, Taver Carlson took off, becoming an extremely influential figure of Fox News. From 2016 to 2023, he leads an evening political show "Tucker Carlson Tonight", whose audience sometimes exceeded 5 million viewers.
However, his career on this channel, which traditionally supports the Republican position, ended quite unexpectedly.
On the morning of April 24, 2023, Taira Carlson was released from Fox News. Such a development was unexpected for him, since the day before he promised his audience to air that evening.
The official reason for the dismissal was not announced, but the US media reported that the decision of the chairman of the corporation Rupert Mrdock prompted a lawsuit filed in connection with Carlson's reporting on the capture of the Capitol's capture by Donald Trump's supporters on January 6, 2021 and the spread on Trump.
Carlson left Fox News six days after Fox Corp., which owned the channel, agreed to pay $ 787.5 million to the manufacturer of machines and voting software to Dominion Voting Systems.
This company filed a lawsuit against Fox Corp., accusing the channel of spreading Trump's inaccurate statements and his supporters about falsifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, including allegations of voting interference.
Despite his release from Fox, Taer Carlson's popularity has not decreased: on the social network X, he continues to have a huge audience of grateful supporters with far -right views and supporters of conspiracy theories.
54-year-old Tucker Carlson continues to support Donald Trump, stands for a sharp decline in illegal migration in the United States, preserving the right to own weapons, skeptical about the problem of global climatic changes, the movement of Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and some other liberal ideas.
He did not hesitate to express conspiratorial theories, including the US government had an alien spacecraft, repeating the Russian authorities about US biological weapons production in Ukraine, argued that the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station was destroyed by Ukrainians, and accused the North.
The Russian state media regularly cover Tacara Carlson as a journalist who "tells the truth" and is often quoted. The Media Media Media Agency has estimated that in the last week Russian state media and Z-channels have mentioned Carlson about 2050 times.
Carlson often repeats Russian narratives and fakes. For example, in November, he spread a fake about the alleged ban on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the persecution of Christians - so he was falsely interpreted the initiative to adoption in the Parliament of the Law on Prohibition of Activity in Ukraine with Churches with the Center for Administration in Moscow.
However, he did not mention that the law did not prohibit specifically the UOC -MP, that it was not even approved, and that there are other Orthodox churches in Ukraine.
The observers explain such actions by the journalist with the work of American lobbyists, which were hired by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Among the famous politicians in whom he interviewed lately, is the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and Havier Mily, who became the new President of Argentina.
Tucker Carlson became the first Western journalist to interview Putin after the start of a full -scale Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Reaction of Ukraine
Anna Malyar, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine from 2021 to 2023, expressed anxiety about an interview with a well -known American journalist with Vladimir Putin. She noted that the Russian information environment welcomes this interview, but such democratic practices can threaten democratic values.
"Putin's interview to anyone outside the Russian Federation is the recognition of his status and opening the Pandora's chest ... The only interview that is safe in this situation is the Hague interrogation," she wrote.
This view is also shared by Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor Mariupol, who noted in his telegram: "American analogue Solovyov, Skabeva and Sharia-Taer Carlson interviewed Putin." He also recalled that Carlson is not the first American to be in an interview with Putin, pointing to Oliver Stone, an Oscar -bearing director who previously performed similar interviews in the form of a movie.
