economy

Criticism mounts today in the West with the strong encouragement of Kremlin propaganda against the sanctions put in place following Russian aggression against Ukraine. These sanctions were adopted in order to "weaken the Kremlin's ability to finance the war and to impose clear economic and political costs on the...

The double blackmail exercised by the Russian president, gas blackmail and world famine blackmail, is starting to pay off: the West has just lifted a certain number of sanctions put in place at the start of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Risky decisions have just been adopted by the...

The Russian president is unable to learn from his mistakes, or even admit that he is not infallible. His reaction to each failure is escalation, as if he were trying to get a little more stuck. This logic of destruction is turning against the instruments of Russian power. The scuttling...