Journalist of the Austrian ORF channel Armin Wolf admitted that the conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the most difficult in his career. He told about this to the publication Politico. "It certainly was the most difficult interview I ever took, for three reasons. Firstly, there is a big difference between when I interview in my studio and when in the Kremlin the president of the Russian Federation, where it is clear that he is the master of the house, and every interruption is considered an insult. Secondly, simultaneous interpretation seriously hampered the possibility of a spontaneous reaction. The third problem was that Putin is an extremely cunning interlocutor who does everything to complicate the life of the interviewer, "Wolf said.. In his opinion, the Russian leader pays attention to the moment when he is interrupted. "Politicians rarely do this. They usually either allow themselves to be killed, or continue to talk. And Putin focuses attention on every interruption, and after the third or fourth time the interviewer already seems rude or not particularly interested in his answers, "the journalist believes.. He noted that Putin often answers the question with a question and "distracts attention from the given topic". According to the Austrian, the president of the Russian Federation will not draw out an extra word, since he is extremely controlling himself. At the same time, Wolf does not believe that the interview was tough. He did not understand why everyone was so outraged by the fact that during the conversation the journalist interrupted the head of the Russian state 11 times.

"Eleven times in 54 minutes, in fact, not very much, sometimes I do it in 10 minutes", - explained the Austrian. He also stressed that before the interview the Kremlin asked him for a list of topics that the journalist intended to clarify with Putin and stressed that he himself did not require any questions, as there were no forbidden areas for dialogue. Speaking of his feelings from the Russian president after the video camera was turned off, he said the following: "What you saw on TV was 97% of my communication with him. The only difference is that outside the camera he speaks German and is very soft.

I found that this is the most interesting part. And his German is very good ".

Interview with ORF on June 4 on the eve of his visit to Austria. It was remembered by the fact that Wolf repeatedly interrupted the president, because of what he began to focus on this attention. It got to the point that the head of state had to switch to German in order to reason with the journalist. "Let me say in the end. Seien Sie so nett, lassen Sie mich etwas sagen ("Be kind, let me say something"), "Putin asked..