of the party. Since the beginning of 2014, the LN has been extremely active in carrying out pro-Kremlin efforts in Italy, in particular through the Associazione Culturale Lombardia Russia (Lombardy-Russia Cultural Association, ACLR; more on the workings of the ACLR see section "Italy" here).
3.6 The LN〜started building contacts with the Russian actors already at the end of 2013. Aleksey Komov, an employee of〜Malofeev〜travelled to Turin in December 2013&took part, together with a Russian MP from the ER Viktor Zubarev, in the LN’s congress that elected Salvini as a new leader of(