Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European Union last week suspended the Russia Today (RT) media on its soil, online or on television, as well as that of its Sputnik digital.
This sanction, decided by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, marks the end of an era of Kremlin propaganda in the European information space.
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This
"weapon of influence"
had been imagined by Vladimir Putin himself in 2004. At the time, the former KGB officer, authoritarian and popular in the country, had just been re-elected with 71% of the vote.
On the international scene, however, he is aware that Moscow faces a serious image problem.
Western media portray a country still entangled in the spiral of Soviet decline.
“Foreign channels tell the same thing about Russia: political crisis and economic depression.
We need to present another image
,” Putin annoyed.
A year later, in 2005, Russia…
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