#Putin reveals truth kept back by Western elites in interview with #Carlson, says Russian FM #Lavrov Western elites met Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interview with U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson aggressively as it revealed the truth that they keep back from their voters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "Remember how aggressively Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson, which revealed the truth that Western elites keep back from their voters, was met in the West," the minister said at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro. In this context he noted that the West often employs double standards, hypocrisy and outright lies, sacrificing diplomatic methods of peaceful settlement of disputes to power struggle, 'hybrid wars,' total confrontation, the strive to inflict a strategic defeat to the opponent.