Le Pen-Putin friendship goes back a long way

There’s a curious painting on the wall in Marine Le Pen's headquarters in the chic 8th arrondissement in Paris.

It shows the far-right candidate in the French presidential election with the Russian and US presidents on either side. On a black background, in the style of the Soviet era, Le Pen, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump gaze out to a common horizon.

She got it as a gift from a Russian nationalist activist whom she met in Paris a few days after