Since March, the state-backed Federal Association of Russian-speaking Parents (BVRE), has been organising panel discussions with politicians from all major parties – naturally in Russian. “We have seen first-hand how politically unstable a country with different ethnicities can become.”The AfD is the only party which has gone out of its way to court the vote of native Russian speakers in Germany. While the majority of those polled said they valued German democracy higher than Russian democracy, approval rates were considerably lower among younger than older respondents. In January 2016 Russian media had reported that a girl named “Lisa” had been raped by refugees in Berlin. German police debunked the allegations as false, yet thousands of Russian speakers from the all over Germany took to the streets to protest Merkel’s immigration policy nonetheless.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2017 03:56 UTC