
Has Russia infiltrated the German Parliament?
From the Mueller investigation to the Brexit referendum, via numerous similar stories across Europe, there are increasing numbers of people who detect the hand of Moscow in some of the recent turbulence in Western democracies. The phrase “active measures” – meaning covert influence operations – has entered mainstream political discourse. How much of it is true, and how much the product of overactive imaginations, seeing two plus two and making five, or more..?
Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse has been working in conjunction with Der Spiegel and ZDF in Germany, and the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The report is a detailed anatomy of an apparent Kremlin influence operation in the heart of Europe.
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