Hénin-Beaumont used to be a bastion of the communists. Then Marine Le Pen captured the small town. Commissioned by Stern Magazine just before the French legislative election, Cyril Abad visited this little town whch became a stronghold of the far-right RN party, and from which France's right-wingers want to conquer the entire country.

In late April, Patrick Wack spent a week in the two Baltic countries with Le Monde's correspondant Anne-Françoise Hivert to produce a long-form geopolitical reportage on the Russian speaking community.