Deputies of the Alternative for Germany party, on instructions from the FSB, sued the German government to stop aid to Ukraine.
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Journalists from The Insider claim that AfD party deputies coordinated their actions through an FSB agent – a Russian political strategist of Ukrainian origin, Vladimir Sergienko, who lives in Germany and has German citizenship.
Among those acting on the instructions of Sergienko and, accordingly, the Russian special services, the publication names deputies Ulrich Oyme, Harald Weyel and Evgeniy Schmidt, for whom the political strategist-agent formally works as an assistant.
Vayel and Oyme were used by the FSB to spread a narrative in Europe about the persecution of believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate by the Ukrainian authorities.
In particular, in April 2023, Oime, with the assistance of Sergienko, wrote and sent a letter to the Pope, in which he asked the pontiff to pay attention to the “race against Christians in Ukraine.”
Sergeenko’s active work in the Bundestag led to the fact that the AfD parliamentary faction last year filed a lawsuit with the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany to stop the supply of tanks to Ukraine. The lawsuit, according to The Insider, was financed by the FSB: the amount in question was 160 thousand euros.
Journalists established that Sergienko received assignments from Ilya Vechtomov, an employee of the Ninth Directorate of the Department of Operational Information of the Fifth Service of the FSB. According to the publication, he has a passport named Ilya Vekshin and under this name he traveled to other countries, including Turkey and Belarus, where he met with recruited Ukrainian citizens.
What is known about the protests against the AdN
After the publication of Correctiv’s investigation into a meeting between right-wing extremists and politicians from Alternative for Germany, at which plans to deport millions of migrants from Germany were discussed, mass protests against the far right began. P
Violent demonstrations took place on January 14 in Berlin and Potsdam, with thousands of participants gathering in the cities. On the penultimate day of January, Reuters published new ratings for Alternative for Germany, confirming a slight drop in the party’s support for the first time since July 2023.
Support for far-right populists fell one point to 19%, according to new data. However, this did not affect her position on the list. The AFD remains second to the German conservatives, ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.
At the same time, as Spiegel notes, despite mass protests against the AFD, the number of party members is growing.
Source: Racurs
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