In France, the pro-Russian are recruited from right to left At the bottom of the small Orthodox church Pétel street in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, a bastion of white emigrants after the 1918 revolution Russians, women wearing black braid crown or shawl flowers, pay their final respects to one of the thereof. Amid clouds of incense and chanting monks a cappella Orthodox priest in a white cassock officiating for the funeral of Constantin Melnik, figure of the French secret services 60s, died at 86 years, welcomes the dual loyalty this shadow man: on one side Russia before the Bolshevik and other France, for whom this grand-son of Tsar Nicolas II doctor worked his life. If he had no conflict of loyalty, todays France, it seems torn between her membership of the European Union, which has imposed trade sanctions in Moscow, and his Russian soul traditional, which , -man left to the more extreme right see the hand of the Americans in the Ukrainian quagmire. Nowhere better than in this tiny Orthodox church was it possible Thursday to collect what remains of this Russian soul of postwar Paris, where nothing less than cohabiting three Russian newspapers, and whose flame was maintained by successive waves of emigration. Today, businessmen post-perestroika coming blaze family in Paris and Cannes, to succeed Brezhnev wave 70s consisted of dissidents, but also bandits Georgian, and the wave of displaced persons Just after the Second World War, says Dimitri Kochko, president since 2011 of the Coordination Council of Russian France, to explain the formation of a Russian-french tropism, yet he refuses to be called lobby . The French love America, but they also like Russia and is close to home They spoke French in St. Petersburg, Dostoyevsky wrote in French.. Former sovereigntist Minister Philippe de Villiers also defended doggedly a close relationship between Paris and Moscow. He dreams aloud of Greater Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals General de Gaulle, lampooned Americans and Barack Obama in the hands of lobbyists who want to impose their model in the world. The sharp word, he described President François Hollande small scooter courier of America, for subject delivery to Russia of two Mistral ships to the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, as demanded by the United States. Russia is a big country that has a reserve of economic power to the measure of the vastness of its territory, told AFP the person who sold to Vladimir Putin the creation of two historic parks in Russia and Crimea, inspired its Puy-du-Fou, in Vendée. In fact, the Russian soul of France, a bit outdated, also hides hard cash interest well understood. With, in 2012, some 9 billion euros of French exports to Russia and a negative bilateral deficit of almost $ 3 billion, Russia is the third partner in France, outside the OECD. La France is the third investor (€ 12 billion in 2012), behind Germany and Sweden (9 if you count the tax havens and the Netherlands which handle number of investments for tax purposes , says the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly in a report in February). French brands flock there. Auchan is the first foreign employer in Russia with more than 20,000 employees, Total cards in his large investment projects and half of Russian cars are made by French manufacturers, shells Chevènement, Special Representative of Mr. Holland for Russia. Whatever their judgment on Vladimir Putin, many French politicians and economists surveyed by AFP first noted the potential of the Russian market. The Russians are paying now. They have money, loose condition of anonymity an official of a large French group. This explains the attractiveness of the country in times of crisis. The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, joined in 2013 the Supervisory Board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and that of the Russian Development Bank regions (BRDR ). Christophe Dembick economist at Saxo Bank questioned by France Inter, such appointments will take place with the approval of Mr. Putin. Way to suggest that DSK is an ally. Last week in Kiev, former French minister also criticized the sanctions against Moscow, will be harmful for the Russian economy but also for the European economy. At the head of LSK, a consulting firm in financial strategy, it intends to launch in January an investment fund for China and Russia in particular investors. While in France, Ukrainian crisis, EU sanctions against Moscow, American threats, while worries pro-Russian. Russian companies are thrown into the arms of the Chinese, denounce the parliamentary choir, right and left, who visited Moscow last week with the Association Franco-Russian Dialogue. The possibility that may not ship Mistral to Russia made their fear trade severely and permanently damaged relations. It would be catastrophic for the credibility of the signing of France says Chevenement AFP. My opinion remains that the contracts have been signed and must be executed, has he repeated Thursday in Moscow. The two vessels, representing € 1.2 billion contract, are already almost completely paid by Moscow. The duty of a head of state is to defend the interests of the French nation, asserts the UMP in French from abroad, Thierry Mariani, co-chairman of Franco-Russian Dialogue with the boss of Russian Railways (RZD) Vladimir Yakunin. At 120 avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, prestigious address housing the offices of the association, it is time to signal for battle. In defense of Mr. Putin, too often portrayed to them as a big bad in the French press. Putin is a centrist, he is the center of Russian political life, between the Communist Party and that of Zhirinovsky (Vladimir Zhirinovskys Liberal Democratic Party president, considered ultra-nationalist, ed), argues Mr. Mariani. He reports the misunderstanding of his interlocutors met in Russia last week facing the fourth wave of sanctions when the cease-fire was agreed. A view shared by Mr. Chevenement opinion. He considers that in the Ukrainian crisis, Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, who to everyone in the country to more nationalistic than they seem to want to adopt a common language. The French pro-Russian do not want in any way be reduced to pro-Putin. In addition to economics, they talk about history and culture, and especially geography and the European continent. The sample is extremely broad and ranges from the far right -the president of FN, Marine Le Pen, never fails to greet the patriotism of Mr. Poutine- the Left Party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who wages war against NATO, where we have nothing to do, and denounces the battalion Azov (Ukrainian nationalist militia that fights pro-Russian and some of whom emblem badge of some units of the Waffen SS, ed). Through neutral people like George Martinowsky professor in linguistics, which blows: In 2004, I was in Kiev at the time of the so-called Orange Revolution, I have not seen anything spontaneous, but rather a huge operation terribly organized, military everywhere and dozens of bus and truck tents. Paris, spontaneous riot was spoken, but I have never believed it. Behind all this, there is the hand of the Americans, their only important thing is to drive the Russians.
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