The daughter of Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian president Vladimir Putin and a member of the Russian elite, intern in the European Parliament. According to Peskov, it goes to “a normal practice” that have “nothing to do” with his position in the Kremlin.

“It’s going to be a normal student and a normal practice. This has nothing to do with my professional role or my work”, so responded Peskov on the news that his daughter Elizaveta Peskova experience as an intern of the French Mep Aymeric Chauprade.

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Chauprade is a former advisor of Marine Le Pen and was made in 2014 be elected on the list of her National Front. Once in Strasbourg, he returned to Le Pen in the back and joined the EFDD group of brexitboegbeeld Nigel Farage. He is vice-president of the EFDD, has a seat in the buitenlandcommissie of the parliament and in the delegation that the parliamentary ties with Russia and maintains. He is very pro-Russia. So he sees no hesitation in the annexation of the Crimea by Russia and denounced, he had anti-Russian propaganda in Europe. the

Chauprade confirms that Peskova in november last year, her internship has started. The daughter of the voice of the Kremlin, that in France the law and in an apartment of 1.3 million euro of her mother staying there until the end of april in the European hemisphere. But, as added Chauprade, Peskova “has only access to public data” and “has no access to debates behind closed doors”.

Putin lives for years at odds with the European Union. European policy makers fear interference in the campaign for the European elections at the end of may and have for years worried about the Russian ties with anti-Eu parties on the old continent.