In a long text published this Saturday February 3 on Telegramrelayed by Le Figaroformer Russian President Dmitry Medvedev openly called for support for “anti-system” Western parties, particularly with a view to the next European and American elections.
“Our task is to support in every possible way these politicians and their parties in the West, helping them apertum And secretum [ouvertement et secrètement]to obtain correct results in the elections”, assures the politician on the social network.
If he remains very vague on the identity of the parties he mentions, he mentions groups “standing up today against all the vices of current liberal globalism” as well as “American international policy”. In France, a parliamentary report from the commission of inquiry into foreign interferencepublished last June, described the National Rally as a “transmission belt” of the Russian word.
Customary of anti-West posts
“We have known for at least a decade that there are far-left and far-right parties and politicians in the West who not only support the Kremlin’s narratives, but also maintain close relations with Russia,” says Dietmar Pichler, Austrian disinformation expert, on.
According to this specialist, if the current vice-president of the Russian Security Council publishes this message, it is to target “the Russian public”. “It aims to motivate not only Russians in Russia, but also the Russian diaspora, to join forces in support of ‘anti-establishment’, pro-Russia parties.”
After four years at the head of Russia, from 2008 to 2012, “Dimon” (the diminutive of Dmitri, his nickname) is now accustomed to selfies and other offensive posts that are clearly anti-West. Last July, he threatened the world with a “Third World War” or even a “huge nuclear explosion”. But his last words on Telegram suggest that the Kremlin plans to interfere in the next elections, particularly American and European.
It would not be the first time. In 2022, Yevgeny Prigojine, the founder of Wagner who died at the end of August 2023 in a plane crash, admitted Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election, favoring the victory of Donald Trump.
Furthermore, according to a survey published by The world in 2019, two hacker groups linked to Russian intelligence interfered in the 2017 campaign in France. As a reminder, a computer hack targeted Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team, leading to the publication of the content of several email messages just before the second round of the presidential election.