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Protest against Corruption - some 100 protests around Russia. God Bless the Russian people!

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Revelations that Marine Le Pen tried to borrow a further €3 million from Russia pose questions on Kremlin interference in the French vote.
Mediapart, a French investigative website, revealed on Friday (31 March) that Le Pen, the French anti-EU and far-right candidate, agreed to borrow the funds in order to finance her campaign.

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Revelations that Marine Le Pen tried to borrow a further €3 million from Russia pose questions on Kremlin interference in the French vote.

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Mediapart, a French investigative website, revealed on Friday (31 March) that Le Pen, the French anti-EU and far-right candidate, agreed to borrow the funds in order to finance her campaign.

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The websitepublished an internal document of her National Front party, showing that she and party chiefs on 15 June last year decided to borrow €3 million from Strategy Bank in Russia at a rate of 6 percent per year.

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It said the “purpose of the borrowed money” was “financing the electoral campaign”.

Mediapart also published a second National Front document, which said the funds were to be used for election “expenses” and were to be wired to a bank account opened in Le Pen’s name.

Le Pen, whose surprise meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week caused a stir, declined to comment.

The party’s treasurer, Wallerand de Saint-Just, who told press last week that he was not asking Russia for more money, told Mediapart that the €3 million loan was “just a project, which did not have any follow-up”.

Mediapart did not say whether the National Front received the money and did not give information about Strategy Bank.

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of having swayed the outcome of the US vote via hacking and media disinformation.

Le Pen is neck-and-neck in polls with the centrist, pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron for the first round of the presidential vote on 23 April.

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Speaking to EUobserver in an interview on Thursday, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian former oil chief who was jailed after trying to enter politics, said Putin saw Le Pen as a “realistic chance to destroy the EU”.

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Even if the EU could politically survive France leaving the bloc, as Le Pen wants it to, Khodorkovsky added that a French EU exit would, for Putin, also mean that “the EU would have no more nuclear weapons”.

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France and the UK, the latter of which started EU exit talks this week, are the only nuclear-armed EU countries.

Frans Timmermans, the Dutch EU commissioner, also told the Spanish parliament on Thursday that Putin was using far-right parties to harm the EU.

“The reason why Putin supports the extreme right in Europe is because it weakens us and divides us,” he said. “A divided Europe means that Putin is the boss,” he added.

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Putin told press in Moscow that his meeting with Le Pen was not an attempt to interfere in France. He also denied US election-meddling at a meeting with the Finnish and Icelandic presidents in Russia on Thursday.

Timmermans added that US intelligence services made the accusation for the sake domestic politics. “So what do we want to achieve? To terminate our diplomatic relations completely? To drive the situation to the level that it was at in the 1960s during the Cuban missile crisis? And where next?” he said at the meeting in Arkhangelsk, in north-west Russia.

Sauli Niinisto, the Finnish president, said it was wrong to think that global tension was increasing. “Very many of my European Union colleagues [are] visiting Moscow ... the dialogue is increasing, and that’s not tension, that’s getting rid of tensions”, he said.

Niinisto offered to convene a summit of Arctic leaders at which Putin could meet the new US president, Donald Trump, for the first time, in a bid to lower tensions further.

The Danish and Norwegian foreign ministers also participated in the Arkhangelsk meeting.

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That's some twisted reasoning you've got there T,
Your logic does not resemble our earth logic.

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I would remind you the United States and China are all that's left in Josh's future. Your beloved Russia is no where to be found. How's that for Earth logic.



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How much you wanna bet that it wasn't the first gay refugee, but the first one that wasn't closeted and it made a great news story.

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I can't say I really care about what is going on in Russia. That's their problem. I'd be more concerned about what organizations like Facebook are doing to curb freedom of speech, all in the name of blocking "fake news".

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Russia's the driving force behind the fake news Jack. Others have been successful at making money off it, but it's mainly a tool utilized to destabilize democracies. That means Facebook, Google, whomever, needs to understand that to block what Russia is doing. It's political news they need to mainly focus on Jack. It's news regarding institutions. You can't separate the two ( Russia, fake news ) as though they are not connected.

In other words, you should care deeply about what Russia is doing. With all the facts presented to you, you still doggedly refuse to condemn Russia for anything. I'm beginning to think there is something more there Jack. Are you really American?

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Soooo....

If your naybor on the left warned you that the naybor on your rite mite be cobbling together a dirty bom uzing old smoke detectorz, youd say 'I dont care'?

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If your naybor on the left warned you that the naybor on your rite mite be cobbling together a dirty bom uzing old smoke detectorz, youd say 'I dont care'?

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http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61726
What I think about Putin ...

I don't think about him at all. That's because I really don't care what he does unless Russian troops are at our borders. And by 'at our borders' I mean US/ Canadian, US/ Mexican, or the US seaboard ... and not Ukrainian, Yugoslavian, or Vietnamese.

I don't think it's the US's job to deal with Russia in the supposed interests of another country.

I didn't care back then that all the dominoes were going to fall in Vietnam, and I don't care what story is being flogged now.

Basically, I don't care.

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Vladimir Putin Punked The Hell Out Of Oliver Stone With Some Old Footage
The Russian president told the venerable auteur that the footage on his phone was the Russian air force kicking ass. (Spoiler: it wasn't.)

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone conducted a series of interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an in-depth look at just what makes Putin tick.
Stone, the director of such films as JFK, Platoon, and Snowden, once said he believed that the 2015 revolution in Ukraine was a CIA plot, so it's easy to see why Putin agreed to sit down with him.

Stone, the director of such films as JFK, Platoon, and Snowden, once said he believed that the 2015 revolution in Ukraine was a CIA plot, so it's easy to see why Putin agreed to sit down with him.

In the trailer for the third episode, Putin shows Stone footage of what he says is "the work of our air force" against militants in Syria. "You wouldn't want to join ISIS if you saw that," Stone intones in the trailer. BUT, as it turns out, that footage on Putin's phone probably wasn't Russian at all. Instead, it seems it was as American as baseball, apple pie, and the Apache series of attack helicopter.

As a Facebook user noticed, and Russian-language outlet Meduza published, the video Stone was shown looked an awful lot like footage, posted in 2013, of an apparent 2009 US strike against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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