Are you wondering how an US journalist (well, let’s use this term for Tucker Carlson gracefully) can travel to #Russia in the middle of a war and make interviews with #Putin to advertise his point of view? Well, in 2015 the price for such a moral flexibility was 600’000 EUR and we only found out about it last year:

Seipel confirmed he had received support from Mordashov, saying “his support relates exclusively to the book projects”. He stressed he had remained impartial, saying: “I always set clear legal boundaries that guaranteed my independence.” The documents, and Seipel’s response, suggest the payments were for his work on a 2015 biography called Putin: Inner Views of Power and a 2021 title, Putin’s Power: Why Europe Needs Russia, both originally written in German.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/german-journalist-putin-hubert-seipel