Marine Le Pen is to visit Moscow on Friday as Russia hailed the French presidential candidate as a realist who opposes globalization along with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Russia appeared to switch support from Le Pen to Francois Fillon when he emerged as the Republicans? contender for the French presidency, with Putin telling reporters at talks in November that they had ?very good? relations.
The visit by the far right firebrand was announced hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Le Pen and Trump are ?realists, if you want, or anti-globalists,? and not representatives of fringe or ?populist? views.
They?ll discuss the fight against terrorism and issues of Russian-French cooperation, he said.
With support for Fillon sliding ahead of next month?s first-round voting, polls show Le Pen is likely to face and lose to Emmanuel Macron in the run-off, a 39-year-old independent who backs the EU sanctions and accuses the Kremlin of cyberattacks on his campaign.
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