Russia funds French National Front: is Moscow sowing European unrest?

Russia has also reportedly lent money to Greece’s neofascist Golden Dawn, Italy’s Northern League and other anti-Europe parties

Leader of French far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen wants to revamp her party
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