This article is taken from Figaro Histoire
“Russia, the curse of the Empire”
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Find in this issue a special file to understand the historical springs of the war in Ukraine.
Cover of the special issue
“Russia, the curse of the Empire”.
Le Figaro
After having recognized, on February 23, 2022, the independence of the two pro-Russian republics of Donbass, Lugansk and Donetsk, Vladimir Putin launched, the next day, his forces on the north and the south of Ukraine and bombarded the main cities of the country. .
Figaro History
The wheel is no longer red, as in the historical novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, but orange.
All the flags displayed on the Maïdan, kyiv's Independence Square, are also to protest against the result of the presidential election of November 21, 2004. It saw the victory of Viktor Yanukovych over Viktor Yushchenko.
The first is from the Russian-speaking Donbass.
After many “
youthful mistakes
” which had seen him rub shoulders with the practices of organized crime, but which were duly forgiven by the party, he had had a fine career within the CP.
After the fall of the USSR in 1991, and like many apparatchiks, he climbed the political ladder of the new independent Ukraine, until he rose to the post of Prime Minister of President Kuchma.
He is the candidate...
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