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Bravo to French voters for rejecting Marine Le Pen, who was beholden to Putin

It's a good thing Emmanuel Macron won the French election. The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tweeted from jail the ugly details of Marine Le Pen's dependence on Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin in Moscow in 2017. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny threw a bombshell into France's presidential election campaign this month, alleging that Putin may have bought off Le Pen with a bank loan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin in Moscow in 2017. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny threw a bombshell into France's presidential election campaign this month, alleging that Putin may have bought off Le Pen with a bank loan.Read moreMikhail Klimentyev / AP
    by Trudy Rubin | Columnist
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