Putin explained the purpose of the historical part of the interview with Tucker Carlson

Russian President Vladimir Putin explained the historical part of the interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson with the desire to convey the course of Russian thought to the West. The head of state told journalist Pavel Zarubin about this.

“It is important to understand our train of thought. It is important to understand our situation, how sensitive and important for the country everything that happens in the Ukrainian direction is. For them (the West.— “Ъ”) This is an improvement in our tactical position, and for us this is fate, this is a matter of life and death. I wanted people who would do this (interview with Mr. Carlson.— “Ъ”) listen, whether they understood it, whether it was successful or not, it’s not for me to judge,” the president said in a video published in Telegram-journalist channel.

Vladimir Putin admitted that this part of the interview may be difficult for Western listeners to understand. The head of state emphasized that in a conversation with Mr. Carlson he told the Norman theory of the origin of the ancient Russian state.

Tucker Carlson published an interview with Vladimir Putin on February 9. It lasted two hours and seven minutes. In an interview, the Russian president told an American journalist about how Kievan Rus, and later the unified Russian state with its center in Moscow, came into being. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov in response to criticism of interviews with foreign politicians stated that it is important for the Kremlin that Western countries become familiar with Moscow’s position.

Read more about Putin’s interview with Carlson in Kommersant’s material. “Then that’s all I have.”

Alexandra Goroshilova