Tucker Carlson goes to Russia: Everything we know about ex-Fox host’s unlikely interview with Vladimir Putin
The former Fox News primetime anchor Tucker Carlson has caused a major stir by unexpectedly turning up in Moscow and securing an interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In doing so, Mr Carlson becomes the first Western journalist to be granted a sit-down with Putin since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a conflict the Russian originally insisted was a “special military operation” intended to root out a non-existent neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.
Mr Carlson has long spoken of his admiration for authoritarian leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban and, before he was abruptly removed from Fox last April amid the fallout from the Dominion Voting Systems affair, frequently took to the air with anti-Ukraine diatribes that will have been watched with great interest by President Putin.
He was even offered a job by Russian state broadcaster RT following his ousting from Rupert Murdoch’s network.
Mr Carlson has kept it up on his X show since leaving
