Barabanov: “Putin cheers for Marine Le Pen, but has an open dialogue with Macron”

FLY – “Russia cheers on Marine Le Pen because it has a more favorable program for us,” says Oleg Barabanov, program director of the Moscow think tank near the Kremlin “Valdai Club” and deputy of the Institute of European Studies at the State University of Moscow of International Relations Mgimo. But he warns: “This is not an unbridled and compact cheer as it was for Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, because the link with Emmanuel Macron has been re-evaluated in recent months”.