Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIs Moscow meddling covertly, as American intelligence agencies say it did before Donald J. Trump’s victory? Russia, or at least its state-controlled news media, has been backing two horses in the French race. Mr. Macron, on the other hand, is the most enthusiastically pro-European Union candidate in the race, and Russia has been seeking to undermine and divide the union. Mr. Dhuicq also contributed to a Sputnik article that derided Mr. Macron, a former investment banker, as a “U.S. “Assange will pour oil on the fire of the French election campaign,” RT reported.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2017 21:22 UTC