Chrupalla sees speech by Navalny's widow as a "staging" - Kremlin critic's death "exploited" AfD has always maintained good relations with the Russian state. Despite Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, Chrupalla himself attended a reception at the Russian embassy last year and rightly attracted massive public criticism.
The AfD's orientation towards Russia and the personal closeness of various AfD politicians to the Kremlin have long been known. A few months ago, a group of AfD members of the state parliament traveled to Moscow “to get their own idea of the situation”