Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Moscow, according to a report online.
Russian media outlets had said Carlson had visited the Russian capital, where he had been spotted at the Bolshoi Theater and was separately filmed being asked by a journalist if he was going to interview the Russian leader.
Alexei Venediktov, the former editor-in-chief of the radio station Echo of Moscow, which was critical of the Kremlin before it closed during a clampdown on media freedoms, posted on X, formerly Twitter, that an interview between the pair had taken place.
“As far as I understand, Tucker Carlson got what he wanted,” posted Venediktov on Tuesday in Russian. The post was shared by The Financial Times’ Moscow bureau chief, Max Seddon, who wrote, “Russian journalistic gadfly Alexei Venediktov says Tucker Carlson has indeed interviewed Vladimir Putin while in Moscow.”
Newsweek has not independently verified the report and has contacted the Tucker Carlson Network for comment by email.
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