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.
The head of the Russian Duma's international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, was quoted by the Tass news agency as saying Le Pen will hold meetings on the "international agenda such as the war on terrorism."
Le Pen has made multiple visits to Russia, as have her father, niece and other members of the National Front, often meeting with Russian legislators.
Le Pen has said she considers Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - a part of Russia, and would cultivate closer ties with Russia if elected president rather than pressuring it over Putin's authoritarian policies
Source: NNA
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