The lesson of the Putin interview: giving in to the Russian president cannot be an option

CommentaryYou couldn't call it a journalistic interview. President Vladimir Putin was given far too much uncritical space to straighten out what is wrong without interruption. At the same time, the two-hour conversation with American commentator Tucker Carlson contained an important lesson: giving in to the Russian president cannot and should not be an option, writes our political reporter Laurens Kok.