how the Russian media talk about the mobilizations against the pension reform

We cannot say that French news usually fascinates the governmental or pro-power media in Russia, except when it can give them the opportunity to paint a portrait of a West in the grip of chaos and in difficulty. In recent days, the Russian public has not missed the slightest progress of the protest in France against the pension reform, from the National Assembly to the streets of Paris. In a television report, the presenter says: ” In Paris, it’s the Middle Ages, the stench and the hordes of rats.”

Paris back in the Middle Ages, this is a phrase we have often heard in Russia in recent days, just as we have not missed any cases of police violence on TV channels which have, moreover, , never broadcast an image of the repression of anti-war demonstrations in the country, when there were still some. “French protest bonfires burn across the country”says for example this subject on France broadcast on March 24, 2023 by the channel Rossyia 24 (in Russian).

The pro-power media analyze the social movement in France a bit like the sprinkler watered. In short, the West is teaching Russia lessons in democracy, but it had better sweep outside its door. Sputnik radio is ironic that the French government supports demonstrations when they take place in Georgia, but does not want them at home.

“President Macron decided to give the people a lesson in European-style democracy. Knowing that MPs would block the pension reform, he applied a constitutional provision that allows him to bypass the people’s elected representatives”explains a television presenter while an extract from Marine Le Pen is broadcast, ironically that it does not “no problem” on the benches of the National Assembly. The president of the RN group has been heard a lot in the Russian media in recent days.