“A hole in the wall of the USA”: Pushkov named the reason for the huge interest in Putin’s interview with TV presenter Carlson

Its announcement has already been viewed by 73 million people

Vladimir Putin’s interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson will become a worldwide sensation. Confidence in this was expressed by the head of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media, Alexey Pushkov. “Actually, it has already happened without even appearing yet,” the senator clarified in his Telegram channel.

Alexey Pushkov named the reasons why news about the planned conversation between the Russian President and the ex-TV presenter of the American Fox News channel caused such a strong reaction in society both in Russia and abroad. Let us remind you that the White House even banned Tucker Carlson from coming to Moscow. However, the journalist chose not to act on the orders of Washington officials.

According to Pushkov, there are two reasons for interest in the interview. Firstly, Tucker Carlson is “a very extraordinary figure for the American media,” the senator noted.

Secondly, and this is the main reason, the very fact of communication between the Russian President and a press representative from the United States is interesting.

The interest in Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin is caused not so much by interest in the person of Carlson himself… but by the very fact of the first interview of the Russian President with a leading journalist from the United States since the beginning of the Northern Military District and the acute crisis between Russia and the West. That’s the point,” wrote Alexey Pushkov in his Telegram channel.

The Chairman of the Upper House Commission on Information Policy clarified that Carlson’s interview with Putin “is of great interest outside Russia, and especially in the Western world, where many people do not agree with the current policies of the United States and its allies.”

And the point is not that Carlson came from the West, but that he is a major opposition observer in the United States, which plays a decisive role in supporting Ukraine and on which the further development of events largely depends, Pushkov emphasized. Tucker Carlson is close to the leading Republican candidate in the presidential election, Donald Trump, the senator recalled.

In addition, the expected effect of the interview is difficult to overestimate.

The interview of the Russian President, posted on an American Internet platform, will make a big hole in the continuous information wall that the authorities of the United States and EU countries have erected in front of information and assessments from Russia, says Alexey Pushkov.