Speculation is rife that U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson is in Moscow ahead of a possible interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, following social media purportedly showing the former Fox News host in the Russian capital.
The Kremlin declined to say whether or not Putin would grant an interview to Carlson — or whether he was in Moscow.
"We can hardly be expected to provide information on the movement of foreign journalists," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
In other news, anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin's election bid is all but over after his campaign team said Russia's electoral authorities had recommended that the bid be rejected.
Nadezhdin's team said that Russia's Central Election Commission claimed that a significant number of the signatures were "defective" and therefore had recommended Nadezhdin should not be included on the ballot in March. Nadezhdin's campaign say they will challenge the decision.