The burning wreckage seen in this photo is that of the private jet of Yevgheny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary troops who had challenged Putin earlier this summer by directing his tanks, stationed on the Ukrainian front, towards Moscow[1] . The plane crashed for reasons
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Maxim Shugaley, a Russian sociologist who became famous for films made about his misadventure in Libya, is the new head of the Russian network in Africa that runs mines, consults for governments, mercenary troops, smuggles of all kinds, and has become a power comparable to that of
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One year into the war, who is winning it? Militarily, Kiev has managed, thanks to Western support, to hold out. But commercially and diplomatically, despite the economic sanctions imposed by many countries, things may be different from what they seem. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trips to
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The sanctions imposed on Russia are hardly having any visible effect on Putin’s belligerent decisions, and the war is costing tens of billions of euros. In part, these are cynical investments, because Europe and the United States, if (as we all hope) Ukraine wins, will get significant
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More than ten years after the bloody end of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, Libya continues to be a nation split in two: on the one hand the pro-Western government in Tripoli, led by Fayaz Al-Serraj, and on the other hand the pro-Russian government of General Haftar, which controls
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Europe is in a deep crisis. Exactly as it was a century ago, Sarajevo could be the stage on which the spark that led to world war was ignited. It is a small spark, for now, a local conflict between three ethnic groups that have always been
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In the opening scene of the 2005 film ‘Lord of War’, Nicolas Cage, dressed impeccably in a war scene, the ground strewn with thousands of machine-gun shells, explains: ‘There are 550 million firearms in circulation in the world, one for every 12 people. My question is: how
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A cold November in 1968, snow and despair, and a song. Singing it, to vindicate democracy, is a charming and proud twenty-something, wearing boots and hair as they are worn in London, and eyes made up in the heavy black of revolt. In the cultural ferment that
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This is how politics works in European countries. In Turkey, an increasingly incompetent despotic regime, whose economic performance is catastrophic, uses blind violence to stay in power – against internal opponents, against the Kurds, and against anyone who can excite, in the most backward part of the
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He was thrown out of a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital: the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian oil giant, Ravil Maganov, died this morning, at the age of 67, following the fate of his colleague Alexander Subbotin, who died (officially a heart
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