As noted in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” Peskov, it didn’t take Putin long to agree to give an interview to Carlson. As a result, the interview with the Russian leader was published on the social network X on February 9, and the video was viewed more than 180 million times in less than two days.
“We actively looked at his materials, looked at his audience, and looked at how balanced he was in covering certain events. And we came to the conclusion, indeed, to recommend such an interview to the president. He agreed quite quickly,” Peskov said in the program, a fragment of which was published in his personal Telegram channel by journalist Pavel Zarubin.
Earlier, French politician Florian Philippot called Putin's interview with an American journalist a global phenomenon and a slap in the face to the Western media.