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That’s how close the contacts of German right-wingers are to Russia
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The AfD flies the flag in Crimea: In February 2018, Eugen Schmidt, Member of the Bundestag from the AfD, Rainer Balzer, Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament, and Hugh Bronson from the Berlin House of Representatives (from left) pose with Sergei Aksyonov, head of the “Crimea Republic”. .
(Photo: Sergei Malgavko/imago/ITAR-TASS)
For years, Russian ideologues have ensnared the European right. Mails and documents now give an insight into how intensive the cooperation could be – and what role politicians of the AfD play.
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Ralf Wiegand, Petra Blum, Sebastian Pittelkow, Katja Riedel and Jörg Schmitt
Even before the war, Konstantin Malofeev was not someone you wanted to be seen with. The Russian businessman, worth billions through his investment company Marshall Capital, can be trusted to find the Russian attack on Ukraine pretty good. As an oligarch in the classic sense, the 47-year-old is not only rich, but also has a political agenda. For years he has been propagating the reintroduction of tsardom, sees Russia as the legal successor to the Russian empire – and has already described Ukraine in the context of the illegal annexation of Crimea as an “artificial structure created on the ruins of the Russian empire”. As early as 2014, the United States and the European Union sanctioned Malofeyev for allegedly supporting pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
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