If Putin has a Trojan Horse in German politics, it's an estimated 2.5 million voters who like Schmidt speak Russian and make up the country's largest minority voting bloc. Most so-called Russian Germans have ancestors who moved to the Russian Empire to farm and began to return en masse after the Cold War. Up to three-fifths of these people consider Russian TV more trustworthy than domestic broadcasts and 40 percent say it's their main source of news, a survey by the Bonn-based Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom shows.
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