Au moment où j'écris ce billet, l'Iran connaît son douzième jour de manifestations. L'élite politique a recours à toute une série de tactiques répressives pour assurer sa propre pérennité et réprimer les mouvements populaires ; parallèlement, sans leader politique clair ni structure organisationnelle unifiée, il est difficile pour la foule de fusionner pour constituer une force capable de menacer l'existence même du régime. Au moment où j'écris ce billet, l'Iran connaît son douzième jour (…)

As I write this post, Iran is experiencing its twelfth day of protests. This present cycle of unrest was ignited on December 28, 2025, by a group of merchants in Tehran expressing their dissatisfaction with the plummeting value of the country's currency. As a point of reference, Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar in 2015, and today it's hovering around 1,470,000 per dollar. That's a 4,494-percent increase in a decade. This sharp plunge has put particular pressure on (…)

We reproduce here a portion of the second chapter of Zbigniew M. Kowalewski's work, Révolutions ukrainiennes, 1917-1919 & 2014, which presents the historical characteristics of Russian imperialism. We have not reproduced its original footnotes. This fundamental book was released in Paris in September 2025. It is the product of several decades of research by the author on the missed encounter between the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions of the early twentieth century, as well as on the (…)