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On the front page of the press, this Tuesday, October 11, the indignation caused by the attacks launched yesterday by Russia against several Ukrainian cities – bombardments presented by the Kremlin as reprisals after the explosion of the Crimean bridge, two days before . The continuation of the strike in French refineries and oil depots. And rififi in the world of Irish folk dancing.
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On the front page of the press, reactions to the attacks launched yesterday by Russia against several Ukrainian cities – bombings presented by the Kremlin as reprisals after the explosion of the Crimean bridge two days earlier.
Vladimir Putin’s decision to bomb civilian infrastructure across Ukraine provokes outrage in the international press, especially in France. The cross denounces “the choice of terror” of the boss of the Kremlin, with a photo of civilians in the middle of what remains of their house in Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country. A “strategy of terror”, also denounced by Release, which evokes Putin’s “an additional notch in the murderous headlong rush” – this time the front page shows a resident of kyiv, injured in the head, a photo reminiscent of the images broadcast at the start of the war, last February. “Flight ahead”, repeat Le Figaro – who chose for his front page another photo taken in the capital, of burned vehicles. The result of the “revenge” of the Russian president, according to the newspaper. “Putin’s horror”, title The poster. This time, the photo on the front page is a totally destroyed building in kyiv, again, and the Italian daily reports the “unanimous” reaction of the UN, the EU and NATO, who speak of a “another unacceptable escalation of the war”. The international community, which President Zelensky again called for help, after yesterday’s bombings – a call relayed by the British daily The Guardian, which also quotes the reaction of Emmanuel Macron. The French president is alarmed by a “profound change in the nature of the conflict” in Ukraine.
This outrage is shared by cartoonists around the world. In Ann Taelnes’ drawing for The Washington Post, a children’s swing finds itself in the heart of a Russian military target. In that of the Dutch Maarten Wolterink, this Russian military target is a drawing representing a Ukrainian family, made by Vladimir Putin himself, with his own colored pencils. The Russian president, seen in the drawing by Ukrainian Andryi Petrenko with his mouth full of missiles, ready to carry out his threats. Vladimir Putin, seen raining down his missiles on Ukraine, on a weather map background, nuclear button in hand – a drawing by Taiwanese Stellina Chen, published on Cartoon Movement website.
On the front page of the press also, the shortages of gasoline which hit the French service stations. “The Hunt for the Full” continues to make headlines in several local newspapers, including Free lunchwhich speaks of “endless queues”, while the strike movement in several refineries and fuel depots has just been renewed, for wage increases taking into account both inflation and the exceptional profits made by the oil groups. Le Parisien/Today in France sees the French “trapped” and is worried about seeing the “social divide” widening between the inhabitants of large cities and those of rural areas, more impacted according to him by shortages. The newspaper believes that “the faults are shared” between the executive, the unions and the oil companies. L’Opinion finds the government “surprised” by the current crisis, which he fears will draw “reactivate the yellow vests reflex”, the great social movement of 2018. L’Opinion, where Kak’s drawing shows two motorists talking in front of a gas station. “The Russians are bombing kyiv again,” says one. “They have gasoline for their planes,” replies the other.…
We don’t leave each other on this. Just to change your mind a bit, though. I suggest you throw an eyelash at Courrier International, which reports a surprising case. We recently mentioned in the Press Review the scandal of alleged cheating which is rocking the world of chess. Imagine that the problem would also affect the world of traditional Irish dances. According The Irish Independent, the competitions are said to be plagued by cheating to the point that the Irish Deputy Prime Minister has warned of “a degradation of the reputation” of the whole country. We don’t mess with folklore. Nor with fashion, for that matter. Le Huffington Post reports that French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier finds himself sued for copying Botticelli’s famous Venus. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which retains “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli, indeed considers “illegitimate” her clothes representing the goddess emerging from the waters and veiling her nudity with her long blond hair…
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