Summary
Anne Nivat: Putin's continent?
When Russia is mentioned, it is impossible to avoid the stereotypical flood of declarations "for and against Putin". I say honestly: it is far from me to give a definitive answer to the question "What is in Putin's head?", as well as to claim that Putin represents "good" or "evil" for his country - in no case do I set myself up as a judge - I rather want to listen to what is important, what he will say, what the Russians have to say about it and show how, in one way or another, this man has followed their lives in the last seventeen years. We will start from the far east, then we will go up from the European part of Russia - which, on his return to the country, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, decided to do - we will show which motives, which feelings influence the choice of the Russian people, and why voting for Putin in the minds of Russians does not necessarily mean voting for a "dictator". We will try to understand the "small reality" in the "big one" and ask society what its everyday life looks like, what it hopes for, what it fears, what place it occupies in the concert of nations. Without taking sides and without stereotyping, we would like to show careful and benevolent curiosity while presenting the turmoil of a complex and so interesting society.
Anne Nivat
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