Elsa Vidal: “Navalny’s death will make it clear that brutality is at the heart of the Russian system’ The journalist discusses the death of opponent Alexeï Navalny on February 16. She also discusses the Russian fascination which applies to the country, the restoration of the empire, as well as to the person of Vladimir Putin through these thirty years of history between Paris and Moscow.

French policy: 30 years of complacency towards Russia, she says.