At the age of 13, Hervé Mariton was already a Russophile and on his way to becoming a Russian speaker after a summer internship in Sochi, on the Black Sea. In 1974, the former minister, now mayor of Crest (Drôme), passed first place in the general competition, taking the Russian exam and studying at the Ecole Polytechnique, and has devoted part of his life to this federal state in Europe and Asia.
As former chairman of the France-Russia Friendship Group in the National Assembly and now a member of the sponsorship committee of the Solzhenitsyn Center. He has just published The Impossible Cure of Russia? 50 Years After The Gulag Archipelago, in the journal Commentaries.
France was chosen by Alexander Solzhenitsyn himself to be the first country to publish The Gulag Archipelago, fifty years ago, on December 28, 1973. Why?
Hervé MARITON. - The Russian Nobel Prize winner, who finished writing his book in 1968, had a great affection for our country. And he could count on him. His manuscript was smuggled to the West thanks to...
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