May 2016: French journalists translate Dmitry Kiselyov's segment on "Eurosceptics" in France. Source: ouTube / LePetitJournal.This May, Russia’s state-run Rossiya channel showed a segment about unrest in France, which Dmitry Kiselyov, host of Russia’s top-rated news programme, prefaced by saying that “eurosceptics are rearing their heads” in Europe.
In the actual segment, just one eurosceptic was featured: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former head of France’s far right National Front party, who kicked out from the party by his own daughter for being too radical.
The programme’s other heroes (people on the street and an opposition politician) said things that had a modest relationship to euroscepticism — they were speaking about French people’s protest against labour reform.
