page_title: Chris Wallace
section_title: Interview with Vladimir Putin (2018)
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Wallace / Career / 2003-present: Fox News / Interview with Vladimir Putin (2018)
caption_attribution_description: English: Vladimir Putin answered questions from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in an interview recorded in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018.
context_page_description: Christopher W. Wallace is an American television anchor and journalist who is the news anchor of the Fox News program Fox News Sunday. He worked for NBC as a White House correspondent and anchor for NBC Nightly News and host of Meet the Press.
  He also worked for ABC as an anchor for Primetime Thursday and Nightline, before joining Fox. Wallace is the only person to have served as host and moderator of more than one of the major U.S. political Sunday morning talk shows, which he did during his time at NBC.
  Wallace has won a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, the duPont–Columbia Silver Baton Award, and a Paul White lifetime achievement award.
context_section_description: In July 2018, Wallace conducted an interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Wallace questioned Putin about why so many of his political opponents end up dead, and sought to hand Putin papers containing the indictment of 12 Russian agents for interference in the 2016 election. Putin declined to touch the papers. According to The Washington Post's Aaron Blake, Putin was "clearly frustrated by a journalist actually challenging him". His interview earned himself a News and Documentary Emmy Award award for Outstanding Live Interview. It was the first News and Documentary Award in Fox News' history.
caption: Wallace interviewing Vladimir Putin in 2018
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