The American arrived

Journalist Tucker Carlson, before an interview with Putin, became the main character of Russian propaganda. Independent journalists reproach him for information support from the Kremlin

The popular American TV presenter and one of the most beloved Russian propaganda of foreign journalists Tucker Carlson came to Moscow and interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin. He released the announcement of the conversation on February 6, and the interview, according to the media, will be released on February 8.

Prochrevsky publications illuminate every step of the TV presenter and guard him in the parking lot at the hotel. Foreign media discuss how the interview will affect the war in Ukraine and the Carlson’s career, and X users criticize the journalist for a friendly attitude towards the Kremlin, arrival in Russia while the American correspondent Evan Gershkovich is under arrest, and a lie in the statement of bias of the media. Novyevropa tells what Carlson's visit to Russia turned into.

Visit to Moscow

Republican-publisher Tucker Carlson, suspended from the Fox News television channel and settled on the social network X (Twitter), Ilona Mask, flew to Moscow allegedly on February 1. He got from the United States with a transplant in Istanbul, Mash said .

In a few days, the Russian federal media, who already constantly talk about the opinion of Carlson about foreign policy events, made a real hero from an American journalist, presenting his arrival almost the visit of the most important American official. So, he visited the Spartak ballet at the Bolshoi Theater, and also received invitations to the Crimea , at the Paul of the will on the TNT TV channel and the federal educational program “New Media Workshop”. Carlson did not answer any of them. Each of its action, even the most insignificant, is covered in Russian media.

The head of the Union of Russian Journalists, Vladimir Solovyov, who became Putin’s confidant in the election-2024, said that the Union is ready to accept Carlson in his ranks, "if he regularly pay membership fees and comply with the ethics of the Russian journalist." Some posts about the movement of the American TV presenter in their details reached the absurdity:

“Carlson today visited the 75th VDNH pavilion, examined the stands dedicated to the Russian regions. Among other things, he examined the stand of the Kamchatka Territory, and then walked along the leopard path at the Primorye stand, ”the organizers of the exhibition told TASS.

“A wonderful place [Moscow] has never been here, a very beautiful city! And I would like to go to Siberia, look at Lake Baikal, take a walk around St. Petersburg. Without knowing the language, I did not know much about Russian culture, but I can say with confidence that it is very beautiful here. I am amazed at the number of ancient architecture and beautiful buildings of the XIX century, ”Karlson said to Izvestia.

It seemed that Moscow journalists were interested in absolutely everything that the American was doing. They not only tracked his movements by car, but, for example, published a list of his purchases in the supermarket.

According to the calculations of the telegram channel “Caution, News”, Carlson was mentioned more than 2 thousand times in a week of state buildings. Over the past few days, the frequency has increased 14 times.

Who is Tucker Carlson?

Tucker Carlson is one of the most popular American TV presenters, he is 54 years old. At different times, he opposed the same -sex marriages, called the Iraqis “illiterate monkeys” and claimed that it was not difficult to argue with women, because they were “terribly primitive”.

In May 2009, Carlson became a correspondent for the conservative television channel Fox News, and a year later he launched the political news website The Daily Caller. In 2016, his own Tucker Carlson Tonight show appeared in his prime time, which became very popular.

During the US presidential election in 2020, Carlson supported Donald Trump. After his defeat, the journalist publicly accused the Dominion Voting Systems, which is engaged in the production of cars for votes, in falsification of the results. The company sued Fox News for slander, as a result, the TV channel paid it out of court $ 787.5 million.

Soon, Fox News broke out labor relations with Carlson. After that, TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov invited him to work to himself, since in Russia "you can not be afraid to scold Biden." As a result, in May 2023, Carlson announced the launch of his own show in X, where he had more than 11 million subscribers by the time he published material. Materials also come out on his website.

In recent years, the Russian state media quotes Carlson on an ongoing basis. The plots of the journalist against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in which he opposed the financial support of Kyiv, became especially popular.

Interview with Putin

During the journalist’s trip, rumors have repeatedly appeared that he was going to interview Putin - the first for the Western media since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine. The Kremlin refused to comment, but on February 6, Carlson himself confirmed this, releasing a video with an explanation of why this interview is needed.

Carlson turned to the Americans, to whom the interview, of course, is addressed. Most of the compatriots of the journalist, he believes, “does not know what exactly is happening” in Russia and Ukraine, but “they must own information” because they pay for the war with the help of taxes (he means state support of Ukraine by the White House).

“The American media talked with dozens of people from Ukraine and took a lot of interviews from [Vladimir] Zelensky ( Carlson also sent him a request . - Approx. Ed. ). Not a single Western journalist bothered to interview the president of the second country involved in this conflict - Vladimir Putin. Most of the Americans do not understand what moved Russia and what goals it is now.

They never heard her voice. This is wrong, ”Carlson noted, which caused criticism from independent Russian journalists and his colleagues from the United States.

He called the coverage of the war in the Western media "not by journalism, but by state propaganda." Tucker also stated that the Biden administration allegedly prevented him from talking with Putin three years ago, which, according to the journalist, "illegally monitored his messages and merged their maintenance to her servant in the media." He said that before his current trip, the White House again tried to prevent the interview. There was no independent evidence of this.

“We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin, we are here because of the love of the United States. We paid for this trip ourselves, the state or some influential group of people did not pay us, ”the TV presenter said.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the president gave an interview on February 6. According to The Wall Street Journal, Carlson can publish it tomorrow, February 8. The journalist and acquaintance of Tucker Alex Jones claims that it lasts two hours. Video - as reported, without installation speakers - will be available on the social network X and on the journalist’s own website.

"Hove -up the authoritarian ruler"

Not only Russian, but also international media and politicians reacted to Carlson's statement about an interview with Putin. So, the former Congressman from Illinois, the Republican and political commentator of CNN Adam Kilanzinger called Carlson a “traitor” for his trip to Russia. On the other hand, an independent US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy - the youngest said that the TV presenter had the full right to talk with Putin. According to him, "it used to be accepted that journalists have interviewed world leaders, even from those with whom we were at war."

The journalist was also supported by Chapter X Ilon Musk. According to Carlson, he promised not to block the interview on his platform. After the blogger Jan Miles Jong said that the politicians and representatives of the monitoring in the media called for the arrest of the TV presenter, Musk proposed to detain them. At the same time, in his appeal, Carlson forgot to mention that in Russia the X social network is blocked and users will be able to watch the video in it only with the help of VPN.

The Kremlin refused to say what to expect from a conversation with the President of the Russian Federation. According to the journalists of The New York Times, during an interview, which falls in the midst of election campaigns in Russia and the United States, Putin can take advantage of "a unique chance to turn to a potentially sympathetic audience in the United States."

“Carlson, like the presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump, is skeptical of further American assistance to Ukraine in its struggle against Russia and supports Putin’s efforts to position himself as a global banner of“ traditional values ​​”, such as counteracting the rights of LGBT,” the publication notes.

The material also says that an interview with the President of Russia can aggravate political disagreements about Kyiv in Washington, especially if Putin makes it clear that he is open to stop the war through negotiations.

CNN indicates that Carlson during an interview "effectively humanize the ruthless Russian authoritarian ruler, who personally is responsible for countless deaths." According to the publication, the journalist will serve as an “empty vessel” through which the Russian President will be able to convey to the American public.

The Guardian noted that the “Prooputin and anti -Ukrainian rhetoric” Carlson has long received approval in Moscow. According to the publication, the journalist’s videos were a constant attribute of Russian guest evidence, and local propagandists used them as evidence that influential people in the United States sympathize with Putin’s military campaign. The BBC emphasized that Carlson openly defended the Russian president since the beginning of the war: even before the invasion of Ukraine, he stated that "hatred for Putin became the main goal of America's foreign policy."

"Real journalism is a crime in Putin's Russia"

During the announcement of the upcoming interview, Carlson accused Western journalists of trying to talk with Putin. These words even refuted in the Kremlin.

“Mr. Carlson is wrong. Actually, he cannot know this. We receive a lot of applications for interviews with the president, but mainly when it comes to the countries of the collective West, we are talking about large network media: traditional television channels, large newspapers that cannot boast of attempts to at least look impartial in terms of covering what is happening, ”Peskov said .

The presidential spokesman explained Putin’s refusal to talk with others in the fact that “all these media are occupied by one-sided position,” so the president “has no desire to communicate” with them. Carlson’s application approved, seeing that his position was “in no way pro -Russian, not pro -Ukrainian and, rather, pro -American, but at least contrasting from the position of traditional Anglo -Saxon media.”

As noted in CNN, in recent years, Carlson interviewed the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban and the new ultra -right President of Argentina Havier Mile. He did not ask tough questions and did not enter with his interlocutors in the discussion.

Journalists from the Western media also did not agree with the words of Carlson about the absence of attempts to talk with the President of Russia. The BBC editor Steve Rosenberg noted that he and his colleagues “sent several requests to the Kremlin over the past 18 months,” but “always received a refusal”.

“Is Tucker really think that we, journalists, did not try to interview President Putin every day since his full -scale invasion of Ukraine? This is absurd - we will continue to ask for an interview, how they did it for many years, ” said CNN International correspondent Christian Amanpur.

As emphasized in CNN, while Carlson hinted that the American media are not interested in telling the history of Russia, the employee of The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich was arrested for this. The journalist was arrested in March 2023 allegedly for being interested in the attitude of Russians to the Wagner PMC and visited Nizhny Tagil, where the production of Uralvagonzavod was located. He was charged with espionage. In October 2023, the court in Kazansent to the pre-trial detention center the editor of the Tatar-Bashkir Service of the American Radio Liberty Alsu Kurmashev on charges that she did not report to herself and did not provide the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation with the documents necessary to include “foreign agents” in the register.

“It is amazing to see how Carlson justifies his interview with Putin and the trip to Russia by the work of a journalist, while Western journalists literally sit in prison for not doing anything bad except the desire to make independent reports in Putin's Russia, not to mention many Russian journalists who are facing a prison or a link for an attempt to continue their work. Real journalism, unfortunately, is a crime in Putin's Russia, ” said Susan Glasser, the former head of The Washington Post.

The journalist The Washington Post Sofia Fullerton pointed out that at the time when Carlson came to Moscow in the status of a world celebrity, Russia extended the term of detention and Kurmasheva and Gershkovich.

“Those who protect Carlson should think about why he receives unlimited access, while others are delayed,” she emphasized.

The journalist of The Economist Oliver Carroll wondered how Carlson was allowed to shoot an interview on the roof of the Moscow Hotel, located opposite the Kremlin. This is usually prohibited by the Federal Security Service. Journalist Yevgeny Albats also noted that not a single foreign journalist, with the exception of Oliver Stone ( he shot a complimentary documentary about Putin. - Approx. Ed. ), Has a resolution of a report from there.

“Putin does not give an interview to those who can and want to object to him and stop the lie. Over the past many years, Putin has not given a single detailed interview to any independent Russian media, ” added politician Lyubov Sobol.