Pro-Russian campaign to influence the 2024 European Parliament elections in France, 2024
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records the 2024 continuation of a pro-Russian campaign led by a former French member of the European Parliament to influence the European elections. It codes the incident as influence operation, apparent goal compromise domestic / EU politics; disrupt (military) aid to Ukraine, target politician(s), location France; the dataset records it as running from January 2024 to 2024-06-30, and the date shown is the start of that period. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 January 2024
- Where
- France, France
- What
- other
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset links the incident to Russia, citing a source this draft could not open (see gaps).
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 2 · leiden
Sources
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | confirmed | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
| 2026-10-28 06:37 UTC | status | confirmed | reported | P1 refresh: new citations or desk-eng ruling; graded again by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Pro-Russian campaign to influence the 2024 European Parliament elections in France, 2024", ev-20261027-7r0r, revision 2, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-7r0r/