Russia, anti-Macron cartoon competition. Moscow is targeting France

Russia, increasingly heated rivalry with the French

There Russia closely follows the election campaign in view of the next ones European. And in particular he is appreciating the continuous attacks of the League leader Matteo Salvini to the French president Macron. To such an extent that, taking inspiration from a phrase from the Northern League member, – reports La Repubblica – even a was born competition to reward the best anti-French cartoon. Salvini, in one of his rallies, had uttered this phrase in particular: “I say to Macron: you go to Ukraine to fight, put on a helmet and don’t piss off the Italians”. The phrase, sweetened in the Russian translation, was immediately mentioned by several media pro-government Russians, such as RT and Moskovsky Komsomolets.

There magazine of the Russian Foreign MinistryMezhdunarodnaja Zhizn (literally, “International Life”) or The International Affairs, went further: it announced – continues La Repubblica – a caricature competition inspired by the words of the secretary of the League. Deadline: June 17th. Prize: the publication on the cover of the next issue. A week ago, for example, the Ria Novosti news agency reported that Salvini had defined the general secretary of NATO as Jens Stoltenberg a “dangerous gentleman“, because he supported the need to allow Kiev to attack Russian territory with NATO weapons. But the Russian authorities had also added that the speeches made during the election campaign “must all be divided by ten”.