Russian MP says France's Le Pen to visit Moscow on Friday


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Mar 2017

MOSCOW/PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Russia on Friday, a country whose leader she admires and which has been at the centre of allegations of interference in the French election campaign via media outlets.

A spokesman for the National Front leader confirmed the trip to Moscow after Russian news agencies reported an invitation from Leonid Slutsky, head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, to meet Russian lawmakers.

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