RT - Russia Today | June 10, 2017 | ‘I challenged Putin the best I could’: Oliver Stone on upcoming documentary | .. Commenting on James Comey’s testimony before American lawmakers – where the former FBI Director stated that there have been many stories about Russia which are “just dead wrong” but, nevertheless, reiterated the “high-confidence judgement” that Moscow had systematically interfered in the 2016 US election – Stone said, “A lot of smoke. I don’t see much fire. You can blame everything on Russia, and this is what we’ve been doing pretty much since 1917,” the director noted. It’s up to the viewer to decide, Stone said .. |

Oliver Stone interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin © SHOWTIME / YouTube

During his 19 hours of face-to-face conversations with Vladimir Putin, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone posed some challenging questions that enabled the Russian president to reveal his often misinterpreted character to the public.

“I’m here to get Putin to talk. Let him talk, If I can encourage him to talk by having an empathetic ear, that is the reporter’s way. I’m also a dramatist. I’m encouraging my actors to be better. To say more. To give me a performance,” Stone, the maker of the 'The Putin Interviews' documentary, told the New York Times.

The most recent interview, recorded in February after President Trump assumed office, touched on allegations of Russian interference in the American presidential election and the hysteria that exploded in the Western media over these unproven claims......[READ MORE]