The Tocqueville Conversations on Democracy open this Friday for two days in the home of the Norman philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, at the invitation of the Tocqueville Foundation, the "Figaro", the Atlantic Council and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for freedom, in partnership with the Manche department, the Normandy region and many partners. On the menu: the Russian question, with the participation of leading figures such as former US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, world chess champion Garry Kasparov and opponent of Putin's regime Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The debates will be rebroadcast on Figaro Live.
The West has been wrong about Putin's Russia for years.
We wanted to see in it a country that was modernizing and getting back “in order”, refusing to open its eyes to the neo-totalitarian and neo-imperial “political animal” that was resurfacing from the rubble of communism.
We spoke lightly of “partnership…
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