Bernard Barthalay 1, Olivier Dupuis
Le HuffingtonPost.fr, 26 September 2014, Strade, 29 September 2014, GeoPolitica, December 2014
One of the most distressing aspects of the way the situation in Ukraine is dealt with is the regularity with which the fundamental nature of the aggressor’s political regime is ignored. Today’s Russia is certainly not Stalin’s – or even Brezhnev’s – USSR, nor is it Nazi Germany, Italy in Fascist times or even Bolshevik-Confucian China. It is a bit of everything and, at the same time, “completely different”. It is a new type of power, surprisingly modern, which has replaced the single party system – the former regime’s central structure – by structures of force (primarily intelligence services) while gradually depriving the democratic structures that were introduced in the 1990s of their substance. Lire la suite
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- emeritus professor at the Lumière (Lyon2) University, Jean Monnet chair of European Integration Economics, President of Puissance Europe/Weltmacht Europa. ↩