politics

A historian and translator of Russian and Swedish literature, and a literary critic for Le Monde, Elena Balzamo closely follows the Russian literary scene. She notes that even though there is no official censorship, the authorities blithely ban hundreds of books—including major classics—demanding that they be removed from libraries...

Orbán's Hungary is at the crossroads of Trumpism, Putinism, Sinophilia, and even Pan-Turanism. Will voters place their trust in other political forces?

A tribute that is forbidden, "neutral" flags that are tolerated: sportswashing is one of the weapons of the Russian aggressor.

Four years into Russia's war of aggression, Europe still hasn't understood the nature of this war, nor has it defined the objective of its support for Ukraine. Pierre Raiman cites  the work of French philosopher Raymond Aron (1905-1983) on war and draws an important lesson. To effectively help Ukraine,...

Faced with the alliance of the forces of "peace", Russia and the United States, it is Europe which is now accused of being "fascist".

Classical fascism offers striking parallels with Putin's policies. For Ukrainians, Putin's fascism is obvious.

A new cultural institution is headed by the daughter of an oligarch directly participating in the genocidal war.

In November 2003, the Rose Revolution took place in Georgia. Following disputed parliamentary elections, large demonstrations organized by the opposition spread across the country, ultimately leading to the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who was suspected of corruption. In the subsequent presidential election, pro-Europe opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili was...

Viktor Orbán is clearly positioning himself as a European link between Putin and Trump, despite the EU's disapproval.

The concrete exercise of sovereignty requires a certain number of conditions, including a clear awareness of the issues of the time.

While France has made remarkable conceptual progress in its support for Ukraine in recent months, a victory for the far right could call this into question at the worst possible moment.

This essay deals with both history and current events. The author demonstrates how Putin’s regime and its ideologues work to destroy French society from within and make it an ally of Moscow. Françoise Thom also recalls how the "popular fronts" in the Eastern countries freshly occupied by the USSR...

In France, the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly had the effect of a tsunami. In three weeks’ time, we risk seeing a cohabitation that would severely test French support for Ukraine and even the foundations of our democracy. However, even in these dark times, the struggle...

Russian political culture has already permeated some American political circles. Fortunately, American opinion remains overwhelmingly pro-Kyiv, as does the Republican establishment.

The former Prime Minister of Georgia explains in this interview what are the challenges of the law on foreign agents which has caused a real uproar within Georgian society.

Reading this 13-page document, it is difficult not to be reminded of the Soviet five-year plans inaugurated by Stalin in 1929.

A new documentary, produced by Alexeï Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund and devoted to the Yeltsin period, has sparked contrasting reactions. This intense controversy reveals a lot about the state of mind of Russian society.

In the confrontation between the West and Russia which started on February 24, 2022, the West and Ukraine had everything they needed to win: economic resources far superior to Russia's, a technological edge in military capabilities, and last but not least, the international law on their side. Despite this,...

While Europeans saw the failure of the attempt to depose the Georgian president as "a victory for Georgia's European future", Jaba Devdariani shows, with facts to back it up, that it was in fact a maneuver by the Georgian government to conceal an otherwise serious affair of collusion by...

According to this French historian, the image of an almost monolithic Putinist system now turns out to be an illusion. Putin has prevailed because he promises two things: fabulous wealth for those who serve him, and the restoration of Russia as a great power. Today, however, he has wrecked...