Le Pen traveled to Moscow to meet Putin when she was running for the presidency in 2017, received loans from a Russian bank to fund her party and supported Putin's illegal annexation of Crimea.

Marine Le Pen, left, the challenger for France’s presidency, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin in March 2017. She has supported his annexation of Crimea.

Macron Nails Le Pen on Putin: “You Are a Dependent of Russia” The lone pre–second round debate touched on Russia, the EU, crime—and, inevitably, Islam.

Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orban look set to join forces in the European Parliament, potentially handing Vladimir Putin a huge boost in his war in Ukraine. The Hungarian prime minister successfully ...

The Russian despot’s re-election will give us six more years of chaos and horror, and Putin aims to strengthen ties with the very worst of the world’s current and future leaders.

In 2017, just before the French presidential elections, the party’s candidate Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie, was received by Putin in Moscow. The French newspaper Le Monde described this ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 24, 2017, just weeks ahead of France's presidential election. Mikhail Klimentyev, AFP.

(Bloomberg) -- French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said no foreign power has ever tried to influence her as she sought to shake off accusations that her party’s ties to Russian President ...

A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years - a hammer blow to the leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for ...

Marine Le Pen has for years been a superstar of Europe’s far-right movement. That was until this week, when a spectacular court ruling banned her from running in France’s 2027 presidential ...

A Le Pen premiership, if deftly handled, could boost her chance of becoming President later on. (She already saw her vote share jump from 34% in the 2017 presidential contest to 41% in the 2022 one.) ...