A hubbub rises from the span that overlooks a 4 -meter -high Buddha enthroned in the dining room. On Wednesday, March 12 in the evening, in this trendy Parisian place located a stone's throw from the American embassy, guests crowd around a slender silhouette molded in a black dress. Xenia Fedorova, the old boss of RT France, celebrates the release of his book Banish (Fayard, 306 pages, 21.90 euros), which is both the requisition against the disappearance of the television channel funded by the Kremlin, a satire on the French press, “Moutonnière, complacent, lazy”and an explanation of revisionist text on “The current conflict in Ukraine, often presented internationally as an assault on Russia”. Access to the ceremony is filtered by a hostess. The world will not be able to attend.
Little reception Organized by Fayard certainly has nothing to do with the splendor of the launch of the French version of RT (ex-Russia Today), in December 2017, when the Armenonville pavilion, in the Bois de Boulogne, had welcomed an audience of sovereignist or neoconservative personalities. But three years later The ban on the dissemination of RT in the European Union following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, on February 24, 2022, Xenia Fedorova resurfaces.
Brown hair falling in cascade on her shoulders, smile in the corner, she now works every Thursday in the program “L'Heure Inter” on CNews. She also publishes stands in JDNews and is the author of a minister, Orthodox lightson cathedrals from France and Europe broadcast at the start of the year on C8 and CNews. Just from the media belonging, like Fayard, to the Breton billionaire group Vincent Bolloré.
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Source: Lemonde