INVESTIGATION – Under the pressure of the dragging conflict in Ukraine and the weight of international sanctions, the hawks are placing themselves in the perspective of a possible succession struggle.
February 24, 2022 will not only have marked the beginning of Russian intervention in Ukraine. It will also have marked the rocking of the Russian system into a new era. Calls for rallying around the flag, for patriotism even in classrooms, the “Z” in support of the army in the public space: so many avatars of the advent of a tougher, more rooted Russia in conservatism and the revanchist logic of “us against them” (read: the West).
“The moment consecrates the radicalization of the system, but let us remember that in 2020 taboos had already been broken: the opposition reduced to nothing, the rewriting of the Constitution whose importance had been underestimated”remarks Arnaud Dubien, director of the Franco-Russian Observatory in Moscow. “In reality Putin wants to break definitively with the legacy of Boris Yeltsin, having accumulated frustration and resentment against the West.”
discontent sets in
Despite these premises, the invasion left Moscow in shock. We are then reassured by saying that the case…
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