Putin meeting Le Pen, foreign politicians is ‘normal practice’ – Kremlin

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Putin meeting Le Pen, foreign politicians is ‘normal practice’ – Kremlin

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin is in contact with 'many foreign politicians who are, at one stage or another, taking part in their future political life and electoral processes'

MOSCOW, Russia – The Kremlin said on Friday, March 24, that President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Moscow was standard practice as are meetings with other opposition figures.

“At the start of the meeting, the president himself said that Russia is ready to stay in contact with representatives of all political forces, with the current leadership, with representatives of the opposition — this is normal practice,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. 

Peskov said Putin was in contact with “many foreign politicians who are, at one stage or another, taking part in their future political life and electoral processes.”

It was the first meeting between the pair, he said. 

Putin told Le Pen she represented “quite a fast-developing spectrum of European political forces”, Interfax news agency reported. 

Their meeting had not been announced in advance. 

Earlier Friday, Le Pen called for increasing cooperation with Russia in the fight against “terrorism” as she met Russian parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

Le Pen, who heads the far-right Front National, is one of a number of European politicians who have called for closer ties with Putin and approved of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. – Rappler.com

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