Russia and China have just agreed on the construction of a gas pipeline, during a visit by Xi Jinping to Moscow. A sign that Russia, like other powers, is turning towards a country that intends to present itself as an alternative to the Western order.
Let's set the scene right away. The title is literary. Not literal. The fact remains that the novel «Volodia» - short for Vladimir - deals with the means of eliminating the statesman. Four scenarios are proposed. It's up to the reader to choose. Cathartic action par excellence.
Among all the forms of lying that populate our daily lives - lies of omission, pious lies, self-interested lies, pathological lies - one singular category seems to hold the rope in these turbulent times: the shameless lie.
In June, Macron called for Russia not to be «humiliated», a phrase understood as a call not to humiliate Putin. A flurry of offended and sarcastic reactions flooded the web at the time. The roots of such vindictiveness lie in the concept of humiliation.
Today, Vladimir Putin is the focus of many questions. Who is Vladimir Putin? What does he really want? Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation, tells us about his meeting with the Russian President in 2003.
DOSSIER UKRAINE, Clément Guntern | In 2008, Vladimir Putin told George W. Bush that Ukraine did not exist. At the time, nobody in the West really understood what this meant in concrete terms. We know today. Analysis.
As the last voices of the Second World War fade away this Thursday, February 24, 2022, sirens sounded...
Unpublished article - Clément Guntern What madness has Europe fallen back into? Under the guise of an insidious and paranoid discourse from a...
Unpublished article - Clément Guntern «We will never allow our historic territories and the people who live in them to be used against...
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