If it wasn’t for what they wore russian flags and megaphonesSmall groups of supporters of the Russian cause demonstrating in western capitals for the Donbas cause would be mixed with the hustle and bustle of the sidewalks. they were reduced Climbing in front of Ukrainian diplomatic embassies which changed the street for social networks and started after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
But no matter how small these protests are, they are no less significant, at least in Paris. On February 21, 2015, the parties met for the first time in front of the Ukrainian embassy. Vostok France Solidarité Donbass. With a microphone in their hands and members of Saint George’s orange and black ribbon pinned to the anorak, paying homage to the Russian army, André Chanclu.
On August 24, 2014, ‘Kurtuş’ newspaper published him. One of the “bridgeheads” of the Kremlin in France. It had been months since Russia took Crimea, and the EU had begun to impose sanctions on Putin’s courtiers.
Chanclu flourished with chair fights from student councils. far-right union GUD (Group Unity Defense) to a so-called diplomatic role: leader of the French collective France-Russie, his last mission International observer of the Russification referendums It was organized by Moscow on the territory of Donbas and Zaporiya, which his army took.
It’s a more sophisticated fate than some of the more belligerent GUD comrades who serve as security guards at rallies for the epic party, the Rassemblement National. Le Pen heir to the far-right and xenophobic National Front.
moscow trip
On that day in front of the Ukrainian embassy, the young association Vostok France Solidarité Donbas took a decisive step: a year ago it was registered as a charitable and apolitical NGO, but now it was to organize political events. A member of the state security watchdog on Russia’s activities in Spain says this is a “typical situation”. Russian procedures manual. This source says that it is the usual practice of Russian foreign intelligence to establish charitable or cultural organizations in Europe, convert from them, organize excursions, unite followers…
However, this also distorts the classification in which they are registered with the Ministry of Interior of the country in which they operate.
Vostok France Solidarité Donbass set up its latest trailer to ship. Help for orphanages in Donbas last October. In October 2015, like his Spanish twin, he organized one of his first trips, a “solidarity mission to Donetsk and Luhansk”.
around a Serbian nationalist Nikola Mirkovik, who has a French mother, and a pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian propagandist on French social media, Xavier Moreau. First entity established in France Solidarity Kosovo, twin of Spanish Solidaridad Kosovo. Secondly, the owner of a security company registered in Moscow, not an ‘influencer’ with no trade or interest, Sokol(As described by the French research portal ‘Napalm).
Moreau and Mirkovik were recalled to Moscow the following year by the Rossiyskiy Institut Strategicheskikh Issledovaniy (RISS).or the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, led by a former KGB general). He invited them to attend a roundtable with the intellectuals of Russian ultranationalism. Alexander Duginchief ideologue Vladimir Putinit is also a reference for the Spanish ultras among other neofascists from all over Europe.
as in spain
They accompanied them on their trip to Moscow. Emmanuel Leroy, former leader of the French National Front. Today, Leroy runs a web TV that is the twin of Spanish EDA TV or 7NN. far-right and denialist Liberté TV.
The pro-Serbian Spanish formation has very little activity at the moment. The French sister is making much more propaganda on social networks and supporting one of the most common Russian narratives, the soothing one: Ukraine should sit down to negotiateand persuade the western allies… instead of sending arms to Kiev.