French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is headed to Moscow for meetings with lawmakers less than a month before the election, officials from her National Front party said Thursday.
Her visit Friday comes on the heels of a trip this week to Chad, base of a French military operation that’s aimed at rooting out Islamic extremists from a swath of Africa. Le Pen is seeking to bolster her international credentials ahead of the two-round French election on April 23 and May 7.
The head of the Russian Duma’s international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, was quoted by the Tass news agency …read more
Source: The News
