The Kremlin’s “dogma” is flexible. Since the end of World War II, the USSR viewed the United States as its greatest ideological adversary. Under Putin’s leadership, it was believed that the war in Ukraine was in fact a war between the U.S. and Russia, with Europeans merely acting as American vassals. With Trump, the narrative shifted. Now, Europe is accused of being “fascist,” while Russia and the United States are cast as allies for “peace.” Françoise Thom offers a meticulous analysis of this new Russian doctrine, based on a document recently published by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Desk Russia has decided to publish the full translation of this publication attributed by the SVR to Mr Tcheremnykh and V. Motchalov and asked Françoise Thom to analyse it.

The new honeymoon with Washington is forcing the SVR of the Russian Federation to reorient the Russian national narrative. ‘European special services are ready to do anything to achieve their criminal goal, namely to perpetuate the conflict in Ukraine between NATO member states and Russia,’ the SVR warned on its website on 24 April.

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