Decryption

One month after the start of the war in Ukraine: what do we know about Russian opinion?

Audio 7:30 p.m.

People shop for the latest groceries at a Finnish PRISMA store as they know the store will close soon, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Finnish holding company S-Group has decided to put end to all its activities in Russia.

The company operates sixteen PRISMA supermarkets and three SOKOS hotels in St. Petersburg.

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By: Anne Corpet Follow

1 min

More than a month after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is being hit hard by Western sanctions.

Western companies are packing up, there are no more Mc Donald's in Moscow, no more champagne imported for the elites, all prices are going up and queues are forming in front of ticket machines.

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The independent media are muzzled, demonstrations repressed, and the wealthy intelligentsia leaves Russia, worried about seeing an iron curtain fall on their country.

At the front, soldiers face fire from Ukrainian resistance, and what was billed as a quick special operation threatens to turn into a conflict that could drag on forever.

More than a month after the start of the war, what do we know about Russian opinion?

Does she manage to inform herself?

Are the sanctions productive?

Do the Russians suffer from being labeled as guilty in the eyes of the world or are they closing ranks behind their president?

With : 

Anna Colin-Lebedev

, lecturer at

author of the podcast 

, devoted to post-Soviet societies. 

Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean

, director of

at

(French Institute of International Relations), author of 

A program prepared by Anne Corpet, Vanadis Feuille, Sigrid Azeroual, produced by Claude Battista.

All of our daily, live coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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