Hackers leak messages between the Kremlin and France’s far-right National Front
Source: Newsweek
French media site Mediapart has reported that hackers have leaked thousands of texts and emails sent between the Kremlin and the French far-right party, the National Front.
According to French newspaper Le Monde, the hackers posted the messages on their website and many of the texts discuss Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, and her support for the annexation of the Crimean peninsula, which occurred in March 2014.
The exchanges are between ‘Timur Prokopenko,’ who the hackers identify as a Kremlin official and Kostya, a man they describe as a “Russian connection” who has access to Le Pen.
The men discuss finding out if Le Pen will back Russia in Crimea by becoming “an observer” of the annexation. According to Le Monde, one message from Prokopenko reads “We really need her, I said to the boss you could arrange this with her”, in reference to Le Pen’s support of the internationally unrecognised referendum held before Russia annexed Crimea. Kostya then gives assurances that the National Front “will officially take a position on the Crimea".
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/hackers-leak-messages-between-the-kremlin-and-frances-far-right-national-front/
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I'm sure NATO's to blame for this somehow.
