News anchor Tucker Carlson comes back to Moscow and announces interview with Russian foreign minister

Tucker Carlson. Photo: Getty Images

Tucker Carlson, political commentator and former Fox News anchor, has returned to Moscow, announcing an upcoming interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Source: Carlson on X (Twitter)

Details: Carlson stated that the interview with Lavrov will be available “very soon”. He noted that Lavrov is the world’s longest-serving foreign minister.

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Quote: “We came back to Moscow yesterday to interview the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov.”

Details: Carlson claimed he spoke with Lavrov to present the “Russian perspective” on the full-scale war Russia has been waging against Ukraine since February 2022.

He criticised the Biden administration’s policy on the war, accusing it of bringing the US “ever-closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia” and reiterating Kremlin narratives. 

He denounced President Joe Biden’s recent decision to allow Ukraine to use US-made weapons against Russian territory, arguing that this move has brought the US “closer to nuclear war than any time in history”.

Background:

• On 6 February, Carlson announced that he had travelled to Moscow to interview Russian leader Vladimir Putin and said that he had also asked for an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• During the interview with Carlson on 9 February, Putin claimed that he wanted to “achieve a resolution of the situation in Ukraine through negotiations”.
• On 29 February, Carlson described his impressions of the interview with Putin on a podcast hosted by American journalist Lex Fridman, saying that the Kremlin is trying to demonise Ukrainians by calling them Nazis.
• On 1 March, Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president’s press secretary, said in a comment about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin that there are many things Carlson does not understand, but at least he does listen to what Putin has to say.

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