Tag: autocrats
This luxury area in Russia houses former autocrats, and the tyrant Assad’s family will also find a new home there | Foreign countries
Russia has offered refuge to several autocratic leaders who have lost their power. Many of them have applied to live in the same luxury area on the outskirts of Moscow.…
Assad: How Putin Brings Two Enemy Autocrats Closer Together – L’Express
Surrounded by their wives, the two leaders are smiling, sitting in a traditional restaurant in the old city of Damascus. This photo is etched in the Syrian memory. Bashar al-Assad…
“These autocrats who unite to destroy democracies”
Are democracies in danger? In “Le pacte des autocrates” published by Robert Laffont, Isabelle Mandraud and Julien Théron analyze the decline of democracies around the world and the repeated efforts…
Erdogan-Putin, the pact of autocrats
In Turkey, Russia is not only exporting its nuclear knowledge or its anti-missile defense systems. Moscow also inspires Ankara for its Potemkin ceremonies: on April 27, Vladimir Putin and Recep…
Russia, Iran, China… These blind spots that lead autocrats to their downfall
In China, hundreds of demonstrators defied the communist regime to denounce the absurd “zero Covid” policy; in Russia, hundreds of thousands of young people who can be mobilized are fleeing…
In Poland, Joe Biden evokes “the battle between democracies and autocrats”
On the second day of his European tour, US President Joe Biden arrived in Poland this Friday. A visit with two main themes: humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees and military…
Olympics 2022: a ball of autocrats and friends of Beijing at the opening ceremony
The discussions preceding the opening of the Olympic Games generally revolve around the chances of medals for the very many delegations involved. Those concerning the Beijing Winter Olympics, which officially…