[ad_1] Tucker Carlson claims he has an “unedited” interview with Vladimir Putin coming up, making him the first Western journalist to speak to the Russian president since the Ukraine invasion. In a video released online on Tuesday night, the US TV personality and former Fox News presenter said he was in Moscow to speak to Putin. It’s a significant moment because the Kremlin has been clamping down on press freedoms ever since Putin initiated the war back in 2022. Putin has not spoken to a US journalist since June 2021, and X – formerly Twitter, and the very same platform Carlson is promoting his interview on – is banned in Russia. But Carlson claimed the West’s journalists have not even tried to interview the authoritarian leader in the last few years. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg and CNN’s Christine Amanpour both posted rebuttals to this on X, and said they had offered to interview Putin repeatedly since the war broke out. There are at least 19 journalists detained in Russia right now, including the WSJ reporter …