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An influential French journalist and editor lived a double life as a “highly rated” KGB spy for 35 years, according to L’Express magazine, his former employer.
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government plans to buy a €23,000,000 building in Paris which was once the private mansion of the late ex-President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The building will house the Armenian embassy in France.
The building, in the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris, once belonged to French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Robert Badinter, who has died aged 95, was the Minister of Justice who in 1981 secured the abolition of France’s death penalty – having campaigned for the reform since witnessing a criminal he had defended being guillotined nine years before.
The centre-right French l'Express magazine this week disclosed that its former director, Philippe Grumbach, served as a KGB agent from 1946 to 1981. But he may not have been the only one.