Denying Russia’s responsibility in the Boutcha massacre, threatening French troops with attacks if they come to Ukraine, justifying Russia’s “special military operation” from the start, Alexander Makogonov shares, with Duma vice-president Pyotr Tolstoy, the role of the Moscow regime’s media apologist in France, in perfect Molierean language.
The principle of reciprocity
Why did he disappear? According to online publications, especially conspiracy accounts, he was “expelled from France” for “speaking too frankly.” According to TF1info, the Russian embassy in France indicated that its spokesman “returned to Russia in early September” after his mission in France ended. And this, according to the Quai d’Orsay, which is also questioned by TF1info, was due to “the non-renewal of Mr. Alexandre Makogonov’s special residence permit, which had reached the end of its five-year term.”
