Gorbatchev : la Russie comme l’Egypte ?

Gorbatchev : la Russie comme l’Egypte ?

On a l’habitude, peut-être en forme de superstition et certainement selon l’arrogance du réflexe américaniste-occidentaliste, de cantonner le phénomène actuel de la chaîne des révoltes populaires aux pays arabo-musulmans. (Notre interprétation des événements de Madison va contre cette appréciation, bien entendu.) D’autres interprétations commencent à apparaître, qui élargissent effectivement la perspective.

Récemment interviewé, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev a évoqué la possibilité de troubles type-égyptien pour la Russie. (Voir le Wall Street Journal du 16 février 2011.) D’abord assez favorable à Poutine et à son travail de restauration de la puissance russe, Gorbatchev a évolué ces deux dernières années dans un sens de plus en plus critique, devant ce qu’il juge être la dégradation du régime.

«Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said he is "ashamed" with the way Russia is run today and warned the Kremlin could face an Egypt-style uprising. Nearly two decades after his reforms led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mr. Gorbachev denounced Russia's “ruling class” as “rich and dissolute,” in an interview published Wednesday in Novaya Gazeta, the opposition newspaper of which he is part-owner. “I'm ashamed for us and for the country,” he said.

»He lambasted the Kremlin for eroding the free media and elections that he introduced in the 1980s, and warned that its grip on power could be threatened. “If things continue the way they are, I think the probability of the Egyptian scenario will grow,” he said in a separate radio interview released Tuesday, referring to the popular rebellion that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak last week. “Here it could end even more staggeringly,” he said. […]

»[…I]n recent months has stepped up his criticism of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. “They've come to believe they're the saviors of the fatherland,” Mr. Gorbachev said in the radio interview. “The policy they're offering now is to throw everything behind personal power to keep it in their hands.” […]

»…Putin and Medvedev have said repeatedly they are committed to strengthening democracy. Mr. Gorbachev hailed these public pronouncements, but said, “the smell of imitation is getting stronger and stronger,” as the pledges aren't backed up with real changes. “We have democratic institutions, but they aren't effective, they're used to cover arbitrary rule, abuse,” he said. “Society has been broken, it's accepted the falsehoods.”»

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