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MAINTENANCE. The Ukrainian philosopher analyzes the causes of Russian neo-imperialism, the position of the West and the springs of Ukrainian resistance.
Interview by François-Guillaume Lorrain and Charles Sapin
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Marched by the war in his country, the philosopher Constantin Sigov came to Paris to bring back what he believes to have seen the best there: this “hidden treasure of the resistance”, which he hopes to see gain France and more widely the West against Russian neo-imperialism. On the occasion of the release of his book, When Ukraine rises, published by Talent Éditions with the great reporter of the Figaro Laure Mandeville, he analyzes the dominating impulses of the Kremlin, the “naivety” of the West, which let them prosper, as the path to take to block the road to “totalitarian madness”.
Point : You write in your book that the lack of trial of Soviet-era crimes paved the way for Russian neo-imperialism. Is such a trial still possible?
Konstantin Sigov…
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