and just a quick update; the BBC seem to have caught on:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31837660
"Like most members of the Syriza cadre, Mr Tsipras and Mr Kotzias descend politically from the pro-Russian Greek Communist Party.
Mr Kammenos, in common with other hard-right European politicians, also has longstanding ties to Russia."
Left vs. right politics and a Union?