Luc de Barchent – The Yalta dreamed of by Vladimir Poutine

AT During the Soviet era, the Kremlin rulers saw confrontation with the West as the best way to consolidate their power. Because the last of them, the peaceful Mikhail Gorbachev, forgot this “Essential component of the genetic code of the USSR”, he brought it to ruin, writes the Russian historian Andrei Gratchev *.

Vladimir Putin has learned the lesson. The Russian President, who described the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 as a “Geopolitical disaster”, believes that the international order resulting from the end of the Cold War is unfavorable to it. He is concerned about one thing: the sustainability of his regime, each year a little more autocratic. And he has an obsession: to avoid the democratic and liberal contagion of the West, which would threaten s …