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Arnaud Leclercq : La Russie, puissance d'Eurasie , Histoire géopolitique des origines à Poutine. Editions Ellipses, 2012

Après l’effondrement du soviétisme, le plus vaste pays du monde est passé de la superpuissance à l’humiliation, avant de redevenir un acteur majeur du monde multipolaire.

Forte de son identité retrouvée et gorgée de richesses naturelles, la Russie dispose d’atouts considérables, comme les nouvelles routes de la soie ou celles de l’Arctique, qui feront d’elle la superpuissance eurasiatique tournée vers une nouvelle économie-monde centrée en Asie.

Loin des clichés médiatiques, plongeant dans les profondeurs de l’histoire et de la géopolitique, Arnaud Leclercq nous offre une réflexion atypique et inscrite dans la longue durée, nourrie d’une connaissance intime des Russes. Il met en lumière les constantes religieuses, identitaires, politiques de la Russie et trace les perspectives d’une puissance qui, n’en déplaise à l’Occident, sera de plus en plus incontournable.

Arnaud Leclercq est un banquier au parcours atypique. Reconnu dans le monde de la gestion de fortune avec les marchés émergents, il est à titre privé spécialiste en géopolitique de la Russie. Il a passé ces vingt dernières années à vivre et à parcourir la Russie, l’Ukraine, l’Asie Centrale et le Moyen-Orient. Diplômé en droit de l’université Paris II Assas, du MBA HEC Paris et de la Harvard Business School, il est également docteur en géopolitique de la Sorbonne.   www.arnaudleclercq.com

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Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky was born and raised in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and went on to complete her postgraduate studies there, earning a PhD in History. She spent 13 years at UNESCO, first in Paris and then in Geneva. After serving as Director of Communications at Green Cross International, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she launched NashaGazeta.ch in 2007, Switzerland’s first Russian-language online daily newspaper.

In 2022, Nadia Sikorsky was named to Le Temps’ Forum des 100, which brings together individuals who, in the newspaper’s view, have “significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland”, from across public life, business, politics, science and culture.

After 18 years at the helm of NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to devote herself to what had always held a special place in her work as a journalist: culture in all its diversity. This led to the creation of Russian Accent, a trilingual cultural blog in Russian, French and English, born in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland, which has become her second home and whose multiculturalism and multilingualism have helped shape the character of this new project.

At the heart of the project is the perspective of a European of Russian origin, drawing on more than 35 years of professional experience and a deep knowledge of both cultural traditions. Nadia Sikorsky sees her role as that of a cultural mediator between the two. The title of the blog, Russian Accent, reflects this idea: the accent is neither a linguistic barrier nor a political position, but a distinctive cultural imprint within a European context.

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