There are no Russian signs on the walls of the far-right National Front campaign headquarters, where the party leader Marine Le Pen—likely the most popular contender for French president—sits in front of a banner trumpeting her newly minted campaign slogan: Au nom du peuple – “In the name of the people.”
But listen carefully, and one of the “people” Le Pen’s words seem to channel is a hugely powerful figure 1,500 miles away from French voters: Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We are in a world that is multipolar, a world in which each country has its voice and a world that …read more
Source: Time
