By invading Ukraine, is Putin the continuation of Russian and Soviet imperialism?
Of course. He made his own the obsidian paranoia of the tsars which encouraged them to constantly push back the limits of their country, in order to remove the threat represented in their eyes by the European powers. “We have not found any other means of guaranteeing our borders than extending them”, writes Catherine to Voltaire. The intrinsically imperial nature of Russian power cannot be expressed any better. Putin took this logic to the point of jokingly asserting in 2016 that “Russia’s borders don’t end anywhere.” He revealed with this joke the state of mind of Russian leaders for generations: Russia is by nature an empire in permanent expansion!
30 dates to understand the history of Russia
“L’Obs” invites you to dive into a millennium of Russian passions by telling you about the key moments in the formation of the empire, through 30 key dates, which you will find as you go in our file between December 21 2022 and the 1er January 2023.
Do the people participate in this belief?
Yes, for centuries the Russians have considered themselves neither a nation nor a state but an empire, and an empire eternally threatened. Putin has done everything to consolidate this dogma, the propaganda on this subject being more and more radical. It is the obsessive discourse on the extreme danger that, according to Putin,
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