Putin funds France's far right Marine Le Pen and her Front Nationale Party, other EU far right...

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parties.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27274-focus-putin-funds-far-right-in-france-qits-no-secretq-says-marine-le-pen
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Taking campaign funds from a foreign government would break French law, to be sure. But the money comes in the form of “loans” from the Moscow-based First Czech Russian Bank, whose head – Roman Yakubovich Popov – is a former state banker and well-placed member of the Russian political establishment.

“A first installment has been released from a loan of 40 million,” a member of FN’s political bureau told Mediapart. “The installment of 9 million has arrived, 31 will follow.”

“Mediapart has lost its head,” Marine Le Pen answered on Twitter, adamantly denying the larger figure: “The sums they mention are totally fanciful.”

The €9 million she was forced admit. This “is no secret,” she told Le Monde with her usual sangfroid. She even instructed FN’s treasurer to report the “loans” to the party congress this past weekend, where they were celebrated in the company of two Russian dignitaries and fellow-travelers like Holland’s Geert Wilders and the Italian Matteo Salvini of the League of the North.

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As I reported in September, many European neo-Nazis and former Fascists side with Putin’s Russia as a counter to American hegemony. Marine’s father Jean-Marie Le Pen called for such an alliance in his presidential election campaign in 2007, and again in 2009 in his appeal for “a powerful, independent, [and] respected Europe encompassing the nations of the northern (boreal) continent from Brest to Vladivostok.”
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Putin funds far right wing political parties throughout Europe because that is with whom he identifies.

[I_stand_4_oranges]

1. Of course!

If anyone thought Peter-Piper-Putin, was a progressive; they're stupid. However, we shouldn't confront Putin; just let him stew in his Rubles.

[stevenleser]

6. Putin is confronting everyone, so there isn't much of a choice about whether to 'confront' him nt

[Purveyor]

2. I especially enjoyed the first two comments in the comments section:

+1 # indian weaver 2014-12-02 14:23
I love it. Karma is an amazing thing, that which in English parlance is called "blowback". French citizens have never been any too impressed with American politics anyhow so now they have a powerful supporter, thank goodness. Levels the playing field just a little bit anyhow. Putin is a tough nut to crack.


0 # RobertMStahl 2014-12-02 14:54
Really, you don't know whose side this writer is on, really. This could be an ad hominem attack on Putin. I am not defending him, but I do think the propaganda machine plays with the waterline in just this way.

[stevenleser]

3. The only two comments you mean. RSN tends to be an anti US negative nationalist media

and so their readership tilts that way.

The problem for anyone trying to dispute this is that Le Pen herself essentially admitted this in Le Monde and Mediapart.

http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/221114/le-front-national-decroche-les-millions-russes

http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/11/23/marine-le-pen-justifie-le-pret-russe-du-fn_4528041_823448.html

[pampango]

4. Don't you forget how much he hates fascists, neo-nazis and the far right.

Don't look at what he does; look at what he says.

[stevenleser]

5. Yep, his entire military adventure in Ukraine is because he is so anti the far right...

so much so he funds and supports the far right all over Europe.

It's amazing what swill the Putin apologists here and on other internet media are willing to push.