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Tucker Carlson’s Russia Visit Draws Speculation of Putin Interview

Author: Editors Desk, Jim Rutenberg and Milana Mazaeva Source: N.Y Times

February 5, 2024 at 22:30

Tucker Carlson’s commentaries have often been featured on Russian state television.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times

Mr. Carlson would be the first American media figure to land a formal interview with President Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago.

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who now has a show on the social network X, has been spotted in Moscow in recent days, leading to speculation in Russia and the United States that he is about to achieve his long-stated goal of interviewing President Vladimir V. Putin.

If so, Mr. Carlson would be the first American media figure to land a formal interview with the Russian leader since he invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago.

Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, has indicated that Mr. Putin was denying requests from Western new outlets because their countries had been “stupefied” by anti-Russian propaganda. But Mr. Carlson has been a defender of Mr. Putin while attacking his Western critics, placing him at the vanguard of a pro-Putin wing of the American conservative movement.

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