Marie Mendras, a specialist, will analyze the drifts of Vladimir Putin’s regime during a conference at the Université des savoirs partagés on March 31st at 6:30 pm at the Vox Azur cinema in Villefranche.
The Université des savoirs partagés will host Marie Mendras, a professor at Sciences Po Paris and a specialist in contemporary Russian history, on March 31st at 6:30 pm. This meeting will take place at the Vox cinema in Villefranche-de-Rouergue on the theme “The crisis of the Putin dictatorship.” The expert will detail the mechanisms of the current regime and the dangers it poses to international balance.
Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has established a “democrature,” defined as a dictatorship with superficial appearances of democracy. This system relies on a repressive apparatus that suppresses opposition and the press, while favoring an oligarchy that has seized control of the country’s underground wealth. This internal organization allows the Kremlin leader to maintain absolute control over Russian society. These are the mechanisms that the specialist will explain. On the international stage, Russia is trying to reconstitute the political space of the former USSR through a series of aggressive wars. Interventions have taken place in Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2015, and in Donbass in 2022. These military actions aim to reclaim territories considered historical strongholds by the Russian regime.
Despite increasing tensions with NATO and the European Union, Western powers have developed a marked dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Marie Mendras will also address current geopolitical issues, including the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the impacts of the conflict in the Middle East. The conference will conclude with a question and answer session with the audience.
