Before the formation of government: Constitutional protection expects new Russian attempts to influence

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns of Russian attempts to influence political will formation in Germany. “Even after the Bundestag election, especially in the period up to government formation, but also beyond, attempts to influence through disinformation, cyber attacks as well as espionage and sabotage can be expected,” says a current analysis that domestic secret service has published. In addition to Russian state media, “purchased pro-nutsic influencers”, influencing networks as well as bot nets and fake accounts on social media would also be used.

Efforts to influence the election

After massive attempts to influence elections in Moldova and Romania, at the beginning of this year, also in Poland, where presidential elections were due in May, recruitment and disinformation campaigns of Russia were revealed with the aim of influencing the choice in the sense of the Kremlin. Before the Bundestag election, according to the observation of the protection of the constitution, there was efforts to disadvantage disadvantaged positions and political actors for its own goals and, on the other hand, to support “persons and parties” through positive representations in the information space “.

In addition, this was spread that the federal government was supposedly more important to the Federal Government than the concerns of its own population.

The allocation of sabotage files to be assigned to state and non -governmental actors to be recorded today and thus enables Russia to deny responsibility, the intelligence service states in its analysis.