Putin has benefited from changes in the information landscape and increasing admiration in the right-wing media universe, led by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who visited Moscow to interview him last year. — AFP
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin of Russia took the stage in Sochi, Russia, last fall, two days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, and spoke of the dawn of a new world order.
“In a sense,” Putin said, “the moment of truth is coming.”
