DISINFO: German special services helped Navalny
SUMMARY
The German special services probably helped Alexei Navalny when filming a film about the “palace in Gelendzhik”. It is clear that getting into this building and even more so getting access to some archives is impossible without cooperation with the official authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany – most likely with their special services.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Alexei Navalny.
The German Stasi's archives, used in Alexei Navalny's investigative video on Vladimir Putin, Sergey Chemezov and Nikolay Tokarev are open and have been used by researchers in the past.
Prior to Navalny's film, the same Stasi's archive photos of Vladimir Putin and Sergey Chemezov were published in 2014 by American scholar Karen Dawisha in her book "Putin's kleptocracy". Vladimir Putin's photo from the Stasi archive was also released by TV channel NTV in 2019.
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