investigations

Over the past twenty years, the combat technique known as “Systema” (Система, “System”) has rapidly spread beyond Russia. Former KGB agents now in power are exporting to Western democracies a practice they once banned in the USSR because it was considered subversive. Fully aware of the risks, they are...

In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his accomplice Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell, the late British press magnate, on the one hand, and the upper echelons of Soviet and then Russian power on the other....

How do experts, close to the Kremlin or not, represent the post-war world? Here is what we can glean from the tightly controlled Russian media. The surrealistic projects spawned by the geopolitical dreams of the last few years cannot ward off the foreboding of impending disaster, and the desire...

At the September 26, 2021, Bundestag elections, Germany will decide on its new political leadership. The Chancellor, justly considered hostile to Putin and his policies, will be replaced by a coalition whose components are still unknown. The Kremlin, however, has clearly made its choices: It leverages its networks to...