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Putin must become-Stalin

Déstalinisation et dépoutinisation

Françoise Thom
Après tant d’espoirs suscités dans des milieux contestataires russes et en Occident par le candidat Boris Nadejdine, malgré son programme qui posait de nombreuses interrogations, le couperet est tombé : la Commission électorale russe n’a pas validé [...]
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La paralysie de la volonté

Françoise Thom
Sous Poutine s’est achevé le processus de fusion du pouvoir avec la criminalité organisée. La dynamique expansionniste s’est intensifiée en se dotant du camouflage d’un messianisme idéologique. La Russie n’est un État qu’en apparence. En [...]

Guerre en Ukraine

Mission Lynx en Estonie - Photo EMA
Ukraine

« Les États européens ont les moyens de résister à la pression russe »

il est inéluctable que la situation s’aggrave dangereusement aux frontières de l’Union européenne et de l’OTAN… Si Poutine pouvait l’emporter sans guerre frontale, en visant les lignes de moindre résistance de l’Occident et en s’appuyant sur les forces internes de dislocation qu’il contrôle, il ne s’en priverait pas. Rappelons que ce n’est pas l’envahisseur d’un pays qui déclenche la guerre, mais la résistance armée du pays visé par l’agression. Dans De la guerre, Clausewitz mentionnait cette vérité, ce qui avait beaucoup amusé Marx et Engels (ils ont annoté l’exemplaire consulté). En d’autres termes, si vous voulez éviter la guerre, la chose est simple : « Soumettez-vous ». Cette petite musique s’entend déjà derrière les appels à la « désescalade ». Mais qui donc pratique l’escalade sinon Poutine et les hommes qui dirigent la Russie-Eurasie ? […]

Amiral Christian Girard
Ukraine

Ukraine : rupture ou continuité ?

Un fort sentiment d’inquiétude commence à se manifester face à la guerre d’Ukraine parmi les dirigeants français et européens, mais également au niveau de l’opinion publique. Ce sentiment est sans doute à l’origine du quasi retournement des positions affi-chées par le président de la République en France… 
Nous appelions, il y a quelques mois déjà, à la définition d’une stratégie des pays occidentaux face à la Russie, complète et unifiée, qui irait au-delà du simple objectif de l’empêcher de gagner, pour s’accorder sur des objectifs positifs, collectivement approuvés, dont le but serait de briser l’agres-sion russe, sur le plan des moyens, mais également, et plus fondamentalement, sur celui de la volonté d’agression, objectif plus difficile à atteindre, mais sans lequel l’arrêt de l’action militaire ne peut être qu’un état provisoire, donc précaire. […]

Staline
Françoise Thom

De-Stalinization and de-Putinization

After so many hopes had been raised in Russian protest circles and in the West with candidate Boris Nadezhdin, despite his program which raised many questions, the hammer fell: the Russian Electoral Commission did not validate his candidacy on the pretext of a few thousand invalid signatures. But the emergence of a candidate, even if he has been rejected, who advocates an end to the war and a new rapprochement with Europe, is symptomatic. Historian Françoise Thom sees a sign of the end of Putin’s rule and a post-Putin era… Stalin starved Ukraine in 1933 while obliterating the Ukrainian intelligentsia; after the war, he waged a merciless war on Ukrainian resistance fighters, most of whom came from annexed areas. […]

LES DERNIÈRES CHRONIQUES

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What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 6: Putin Forever

In his, two hour, record long, yearly state of the nation-speech Putin fixed his sight on the presidential ‘election’ [coronation] expected in a few weeks. The war against Ukraine, ‘Nazis’ and bashing the West is the guiding ideology. As seasoned KGB-operative, Putin boasted self-confidence sugar-coating the military situation and its losses. Demands for everybody to contribute and rally behind the militarised society is the oratorical chapeau on the increased physical repression. As usual, he promised money for everybody and the crowd obeyed the traditional of applause; 116 times according to the puppet opposition. When Wladimir Putin says : « Our Motherland is defending its sovereignty and security, defending the lives of our compatriots in Donbass and Novorossiya », he means : «We invaded the neighbour Ukraine, but I call it defence. ‘Novorossiya’ is my colonial word for southern parts of Ukraine ». […]

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Years of War

War has become an essential, almost sought-after state of affairs in Russia. We look at some recent developments in society. 24 February was a sombre day marking two years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. The war has also been a cyber and hybrid campaign soaked in disinformation and manipulation. Indeed, it is not just two years. In truth, Moscow’s campaign began 10 years ago in late February 2014. That was when ‘little green men’ wearing fatigues bearing no identifying insignias landed by air and sea on the Crimea peninsula. The dictator-style annexation was quick: local ‘elections’ held at gunpoint, a hijacked ‘parliament’ in Sevastopol asking for unification, and the Russian parliament’s rubber-stamping of the whole mess in Moscow. This far-reaching constitutional process was done in less than 20 days. Pro-Kremlin voices and pundits continue to devote a lot of stubborn energy to promoting the claim that the take-over was a splendid, well-considered, and democratic process. […]

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Reflection on Two Years of War and Disinformation

The Kremlin’s lies, deceit and disinformation have systematically fuelled Russia brutal war of aggression against Ukraine. Two years later, Ukraine fights bravely on and we continue to expose Russia’s lies. Don’t be deceived. Two years ago, on 24 February 2022 Russia launched a brutal full-scale invasion against its peaceful neighbour Ukraine and the world irrevocably changed. There are a lot of memories accrued in these past two years. Some traumatic and painful, like learning of the horrendous atrocities committed by Russia in Bucha, some are full of optimism and resolve, like seeing Ukraine liberate Kherson from the Russian invaders. But in these last two years we gathered more than just memories, we also sifted through piles and piles of pro-Kremlin disinformation fuelling Russia’s war machine with hate and lies. So, when we think about #24Feb2022, we also think of all the pro-Kremlin disinformation that we sought to expose on our EUvsDisinfo platform. Here is but a glimpse of some of the pro-Kremlin disinformation topics that have become inextricably linked with our memory of war. […]

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Pyrrhic Victories and Crickets Chirping in the Graveyard

From celebrating gaining a few dozen square kilometers of scorched earth in Avdiivka as a major victory for Putin to keeping mum about the circumstances of Alexei Navalny’s death, it’s been a busy week for the Kremlin’s disinformation mouthpieces. This week, the Kremlin’s steely gaze was affixed on Avdiivka, lauding the capture of this patch of scorched earth as a breakthrough victory. Meanwhile, the untimely death of a long-term critic and staunch opponent of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, wrongly imprisoned in a Russian death-camp, merited only a passing glance and the ‘conspiracy theory treatment’. If details on Navalny’s death were scant in the Kremlin’s channels, the fact that 24 February marks two years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine seems to have been completely and deliberately excluded from the Kremlin’s disinformation repertoire this week. […]

Timbre à l'effigie d'Andreï Jdanov

Pourquoi Poutine choisit le chaos

La dernière analyse de Françoise Thom diffusée sur DeskRussie a connu un certain retentissement, tout comme « le deuxième front : comment la Russie veut saper le soutien occidental à l’Ukraine ». A qui profite [...]

Dans l’actualité

Mission Lynx en Estonie - Photo EMA
Ukraine

« Les États européens ont les moyens de résister à la pression russe »

il est inéluctable que la situation s’aggrave dangereusement aux frontières de l’Union européenne et de l’OTAN… Si Poutine pouvait l’emporter sans guerre frontale, en visant les lignes de moindre résistance de l’Occident et en s’appuyant sur les forces internes de dislocation qu’il contrôle, il ne s’en priverait pas. Rappelons que ce n’est pas l’envahisseur d’un pays qui déclenche la guerre, mais la résistance armée du pays visé par l’agression. Dans De la guerre, Clausewitz mentionnait cette vérité, ce qui avait beaucoup amusé Marx et Engels (ils ont annoté l’exemplaire consulté). En d’autres termes, si vous voulez éviter la guerre, la chose est simple : « Soumettez-vous ». Cette petite musique s’entend déjà derrière les appels à la « désescalade ». Mais qui donc pratique l’escalade sinon Poutine et les hommes qui dirigent la Russie-Eurasie ? […]

Amiral Christian Girard
Ukraine

Ukraine : rupture ou continuité ?

Un fort sentiment d’inquiétude commence à se manifester face à la guerre d’Ukraine parmi les dirigeants français et européens, mais également au niveau de l’opinion publique. Ce sentiment est sans doute à l’origine du quasi retournement des positions affi-chées par le président de la République en France… 
Nous appelions, il y a quelques mois déjà, à la définition d’une stratégie des pays occidentaux face à la Russie, complète et unifiée, qui irait au-delà du simple objectif de l’empêcher de gagner, pour s’accorder sur des objectifs positifs, collectivement approuvés, dont le but serait de briser l’agres-sion russe, sur le plan des moyens, mais également, et plus fondamentalement, sur celui de la volonté d’agression, objectif plus difficile à atteindre, mais sans lequel l’arrêt de l’action militaire ne peut être qu’un état provisoire, donc précaire. […]

Evgenia Kara-Murza
Infoguerre

Women Fighting Back at Putin and Lukashenka

International Women’s Day: Independent female politicians and activists are particularly feared and smeared by the Kremlin and its fellows. This International Women’s Day is an opportunity to honour Russian and Belarussian women who have taken up the fight against Russian and Belarus state and pro-Kremlin disinformation and manipulation. One example is Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny who died suddenly on 16 February 2024 in suspicious circumstances in a Siberian prison camp. On 1 March, Alexei Navalny was buried near Moscow. In defiance of the Kremlin, thousands of Russians came to pay their respects while chanting anti-war slogans. Russian state and pro-Kremlin outlets have a long history of mocking feminism and women’s rights. This strategy isn’t accidental or marginal. Demeaning and degrading independent female agency is a major part of the Kremlin’s ‘threatened values’ super-narrative. […]

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The Kremlin Blows Hot Air to Spite the Freezing Winter in Russia

Russian state-controlled and other pro-Kremlin outlets continued to push hackneyed disinformation tropes about European energy problems despite mounting energy woes in Russia. Two years after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, social discontent in Russia is heating up. Despite massive repression and laws criminalising opposition to the war, scattered protests have broken out. In some, the wives of Russian soldiers demand that their husbands come home. Other protests, however, focus on heating blackouts and outages in the midst of sub-zero temperatures. Since Putin cut off gas supplies to Europe in 2022, pro-Kremlin propagandists have gleefully predicted that Europeans will freeze in winter. They’ve been wrong again and again. Meanwhile, not far from Moscow, cold and desperate Russians recently took to making online videos of their plight. But as the Kremlin knows, disinformation never lets reality get in the way of a good story. […]

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Jointly Inflating a Disinformation Bubble

What can we see in the Transnistrian region and international media. Over the past weeks Moldova has got a lot of international press coverage. The major media, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, France 24, Euractiv, European Pravda, The Moscow Times, Meduza, Balkan Insight, CNN, CNBC, Aljazeera, and many more wrote about a possible request from Tiraspol to Moscow to accept the Transnistrian region of Moldova as part of the Russian Federation. “Deputies of all levels from Transnistria” were reported to possibly adopt the request on 28 February, during a special session called by de-facto leader Vadim Krasnoselsky. The reports all go back to an opinion – not even original information – of a local opposition activist, Ghennady Chorba, who wrote on his Facebook page that this could be the main topic at the congress, especially given that Russian president Vladimir Putin was expected to address the Russian Federal Assembly on 29 February. […]

EUvsDiSiNFO_Putin-forever-29-FEB-2024
Infoguerre

What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 6: Putin Forever

In his, two hour, record long, yearly state of the nation-speech Putin fixed his sight on the presidential ‘election’ [coronation] expected in a few weeks. The war against Ukraine, ‘Nazis’ and bashing the West is the guiding ideology. As seasoned KGB-operative, Putin boasted self-confidence sugar-coating the military situation and its losses. Demands for everybody to contribute and rally behind the militarised society is the oratorical chapeau on the increased physical repression. As usual, he promised money for everybody and the crowd obeyed the traditional of applause; 116 times according to the puppet opposition. When Wladimir Putin says : « Our Motherland is defending its sovereignty and security, defending the lives of our compatriots in Donbass and Novorossiya », he means : «We invaded the neighbour Ukraine, but I call it defence. ‘Novorossiya’ is my colonial word for southern parts of Ukraine ». […]