In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon dissects Putin’s schemes to circumvent these embargoes with Charlotte Lalanne, journalist in the World service of L’Express.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Marion Galard (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: LCI
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Pavel Byrkin/AFP
Logo : Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon : The scene takes place last summer, in kyiv. In a building whose address is kept secret, a Ukrainian soldier dismantles a Russian missile recovered on the battlefield, under the eyes of reporters from the Reuters agency. The defective weapon did not explode and still appears to be intact. With the point of his knife, the soldier removes about twenty screws and delicately lifts the cover of the missile. Inside, there are many components covered with inscriptions in Cyrillic… but also – and this is what challenges journalists – several tiny elements with logos well known in the West: those of Intel, or Texas Instrument, American multinationals specialized in the production of processors and electronic chips.
However, since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western countries have adopted a battery of economic sanctions. American and European companies are no longer supposed to work with Moscow, even less when it comes to participating in its war effort. So how did these components end up there, despite Western sanctions? And how to ensure that these are respected? Here are the questions we’re looking at today.
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