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For disinformation researcher and ex-journalist Nicolas Hénin, Vladimir Putin’s Russia finds massive support in the French far right to try to destabilize Paris.
Destabilize, increasingly, and by all means, Western democracies. In the “political war” Russia is waging against its competitors on the world stage, the far right plays a leading role. A tool financed, oriented, maintained by the Kremlin particularly in Europe, the area in which the book is interested Russia and the Far-Right: Insights from Ten European Countries (“Russia and the Far Right: Study of Ten European Countries”) published by the International Center for Counter-Terrorism, a counter-terrorism research center. Directly, but also more insidiously, thanks to the aura that his authoritarian and traditionalist power gives him among the movement. Release questioned disinformation consultant and researcher Nicolas Hénin, who wrote the section devoted to France.
The work highlights a “political war” that Russia is waging against Western democracies. What is it about ?
It is a hybrid struggle for influence strictly speaking, that is to say ideological, aiming to influence the fields of information and perceptions, but with a kinetic dimension, an impact in the world real. Weakening the West in its support for Ukraine is part of Moscow’s war effort in Europe. This war is in many ways reminiscent of the Cold War, during which blocs clashed, each carrying its own model. But this time, the p
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