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Extramarital Dating Site Unsettles the Land of Discreet Affairs - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/world/europe/in-france-gleeden-an-extramarital-dating-site-unsettles-the-land-of-discree

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Intéressant d’entendre parler de cette stupidité au travers du New York Times... soit l’affaire n’a pas fait grand bruit en France, soit elle m’a glissé entre les doigts...

Mais être le pays cible permet de mieux comprendre la manière dont la presse parle d’un pays étranger... ce qui doit aussi être la même chose quand la presse française parle de l’étranger, de ses moeurs et débats internes... au prisme de ce qui intéresse la presse française.

PARIS — In a country recently transfixed by the trial of a famous politician that revealed details of his orgy escapades, and where the president was found to be cheating on his live-in partner, an ad promoting extramarital affairs might not seem like such a big deal.

But even in famously libertine France, the latest advertising campaign — evoking the temptations of Eve with a partly eaten apple — for a dating website geared to married women looking for affairs has spawned a backlash and a national debate.

The ads for the dating website Gleeden, which bills itself as “the premier site for extramarital affairs designed by women,” were recently splashed on the backs of buses in several French cities. Seven cities decided to withdraw the ads, and opponents have mobilized against them on social media, providing the latest example of a prominent cultural divide in France about the lines between public morality, private sexual conduct and the country’s vaunted freedom of expression.

Last month, the Catholic Family Associations filed a legal complaint against the site’s American publisher, Black Divine, in a Paris superior court. The Catholic group said the ad was crude and immoral and a reckless breach of an article in the civil code.

Putin, Contrary to Earlier Assertions, Suggests Planning to Seize Crimea Started in Early 2014 - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/world/europe/putin-contrary-to-earlier-assertions-suggests-planning-to-seize-crimea-star

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has publicly indicated for the first time that military planning to seize Crimea started well before the referendum there on the issue, which he had cited previously as the main reason for Russia’s annexation.

Mr. Putin said he made the decision around 7 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2014, after an all-night emergency meeting with his security chiefs on the crisis in Ukraine. Viktor F. Yanukovych had just been deposed as president of Ukraine, and the meeting was called to discuss his rescue, Mr. Putin said.

Russia has long contended that it acted spontaneously to reclaim Crimea, mainly to protect Russian speakers who it said had been threatened, and to stave off what it suspected was an attempt by NATO to colonize the Black Sea.

Une bonne partie de la presse reprend cette « révélation ».
Mais qu’apprend-on, au fond ? Que V. V. Poutine n’a pas attendu très longtemps après le putsch renversant Ianoukovytch, et ce malgré l’accord politique obtenu le jour même pour un gouvernement de transition, pour identifier les tireurs de ficelles et en tirer les conséquences stratégiques…

Le reste, que c’est un remarquable tacticien capable d’exploiter au mieux les faiblesse de ses adversaires, on le savait déjà.