Renseignement
The Missing Stuff
So nearly three weeks after the beginning of the attack on Ukraine it seems that a number of generals have been suspended by Putin. The exact figure is unknown because it tends to grow by […]
Ukraine
Infoguerre
Disinformation at the Border of War
On the morning of 24 February, people in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, were woken up by the sound of several explosions. Bombs were falling on Ukraine, most probably in Odesa, which is less than […]
Ukraine
The Post-war World Seen from Russia
How do experts, close to the Kremlin or not, represent the post-war world? Here is what we can glean from the tightly controlled Russian media. The surrealistic projects spawned by the geopolitical dreams of the […]
Ukraine
Le monde de l’après-guerre vu de Russie
Comment les experts, proches du Kremlin ou non, se représentent-ils le monde de l’après-guerre ? Voici ce qu’on peut glaner des médias russes soumis à une lourde censure. Les projets surréalistes prolongeant les rêveries géopolitiques des […]
Renseignement
Les services secrets dans la guerre d’Ukraine : l’heure des barbouzes
Les services de renseignement ont rarement été autant sous les feux de la rampe que lors de l’attaque de l’Ukraine par la Russie. Siobhán Geets dans le magazine autrichien Profil révèle le rôle du service […]
Ukraine
Le retour du totalitarisme soviétique
Vladimir Poutine, converti au nationalisme russe, a renié depuis longtemps une Union soviétique coupable à ses yeux d’avoir mené, en premier lieu avec Lénine, une politique des nationalités qui a conduit à la situation actuelle […]
Ukraine
Russian Hardware For Grabs Thanks To Appalling DNA-Inherited Logistics
There indeed is a limit to what one can make up. Pictures of actual intact Russian T-80 tanks being happily towed away by farmers on their green John Deeres, or of a young lady selfying […]
Infoguerre
The Kremlin Hasthtagging Ze War
Weeks before the Russian attack on Ukraine, military specialists started to ask about strange markings on military vehicles massing along the borders. Several vehicles sported a white Z-sign on the doors or bonnets and experts tried to […]
Ukraine
Zelinsky : « The question to us is to be or not to be »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today channelled Winston Churchill’s wartime defiance as he delivered a historic address to the House of Commons from his war-ravaged country, vowing ‘we will not give up’. ‘We will fight them in the […]
Ukraine
Raspoutitsa, When You Hold Us!
Over the least eight days at least, experts of all kinds had been speculating on the reasons why a frisky 60km-long Russian armoured column of an « elite mechanised division » had frozen to a standstill in […]