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 Pens 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/
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)Otherwise it's "right to know", compelled transparency, and "sunshine."
When it's hacking allies, then it's political terrorism. Snowden, for instance, was a terrorist. Or an underdog striking at the PTB for the right to know.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)Putin would like both EU and NATO to disintegrate. The former goal involves supporting any and all nationalist/anti-EU parties, the latter the piecemeal 'hybrid-war' shenanigans.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I'm sure NATO's to blame for this somehow.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)He's got the ideology, the means and the support.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)But it's good to see documentation...
In case anyone was wondering, Syriza is the third part of this "triangle"