On Sunday, September 24, elections will be held in Germany. As follows from the latest polls, for Angela Merkel's party, they can become non-alternative, the CDU predicts 37% of the vote, which may be enough to provide the leader with the post of the Bundescanceler.

It is interesting that against the backdrop of scandalous exposures regarding the receipt of Russian support by candidates for elections in the US and France, the "Russian theme" is hardly touched on in Germany.

The candidates themselves did not prudently try to tease the geese and minimize their contacts with officials of the Russian Federation. Opponent Angela Merkel leader of the Social Democrats Martin Schultz originally planned a working meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he did not gather in Moscow. Merkel met with the Russian leader in the framework of the tour before the G20 summit in Hamburg, as required by her duties hostess events.

According to Gerhard Magott, a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, if Schulz specifically met with Putin separately, the conservative press would unequivocally interpret such a step as Russia's attempt to intervene in the struggle. This is exactly how they wrote about the meeting between Marin Le Pen and Vladimir Putin before the elections in France, said expert BFM.

The topic of Russia's possible influence on the election campaign in Germany is very much debated, but at the moment there is no evidence even of any attempts of such an impact. Moreover, Magotte points out, Russia, on the contrary, tries to stay out of the elections, because if it happened it would be a blow to the CDU, which would ultimately worsen relations between Russia and Germany.

The only Russian plot of the election campaign was the publication of the magazine Zuerst, which called on the Germans to elect Chancellor Putin. Posters of the cover of the magazine with the portrait of the Russian president were glued to the walls in the center of Berlin, including - and in neighborhoods near the Reichstag. Thus, the publication decided to recall that most Germans do not approve of the sanctions imposed by the US against Russia.

On the eve of the elections, The New York Times wrote that the "Russian trolls", which were active during the elections in the US and France, did not make any sensations in the FRG. The publication believes that the silence is caused by a failed result in France - because of an unsuccessful attempt to help Marin Le Pen to defeat Emmanuel Macron Moscow decided to change its approach.

According to the publication, the Germans themselves did not build illusions. At the initiative of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the country's security forces were instructed in the spring to protect the country from "Russian cyber attacks" during the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Officials of Germany were seriously expecting from the Kremlin fake news and phishing. But "the Russians have disappeared," notes NYT.

Now that the campaign ends with little or no sensation, and the pages of election headquarters and large German media are working as usual, the Germans are almost disappointed, said Sandro Gaiken, director of the Institute of Digital Society in Berlin.

According to experts, the German elections, unlike the American ones, are isolated from interference from outside, for organic reasons - the country's policy is not as polarized as in the US.

In addition, during the campaign this year, the election headquarters of large parties in Germany went to an unimaginable step - a "gentlemen's agreement" was reached that competitors will not attack each other with the help of information obtained during cyber espionage. At the same time, no one excludes that the day before the election, information that allegedly stolen by Russian hackers from the Bundestag information system two years ago. Recall that in France, a few days before the presidential election, electronic correspondence of the electoral headquarters of Emmanuel Macron.