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What a loan to Le Pen tells us about Russian foreign influence campaigns
December 27, 2018 | 1:29 PM GMT
The Post's Paul Sonne explains how a Russian bank ended up giving a loan to French far-right politician Marine Le Pen and what happened next.
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