Iight has fallen on Moscow. The last independent media are silent on Ukraine, their journalists being threatened with imprisonment, social networks are partly put under the extinguisher, and the police are imprisoning at all costs. We are thinking of “rolling of the black vans of terror” described by Anna Akhmatova – and one wonders who will end this, and when. Because, in several respects, Vladimir Putin has to deal with fewer checks and balances than certain former masters of the USSR. If Khrushchev was dismissed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, it is not clear today which politburo would have the authority to dismiss Putin…
The acceleration of the repressive headlong rush is rapid, staggering. Witness this extraordinary scene in which a journalist from…
Illustration: dusault for “the point”
