France's Le Pen, on Russia visit, heads to Kremlin for exhibition

Candidate for the 2017 presidential election Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader, arrives for a meeting with members of the State Duma, the Russian lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, in Moscow, Russia March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, on a visit to Moscow, cut short a schedule of events in the Russian parliament to go to the Kremlin to view an exhibition of French gothic art, the speaker of parliament told reporters.

Le Pen aides did not say whether she would be meeting any Russian officials while in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin was at the Kremlin on Friday presiding over an awards ceremony.