The gift is: the alleged Russian spy with the stage name Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera at the opening of the Serein Concept Gallery 2016, which she runs
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Italy’s press is fascinated by the case of Olga Kolobowa. Under the name of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, she is said to have spyed on NATO military circles as a Russian spy.
Ob Olga Kolobowa alias Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera has caused damage and if so to what extent is not known. What is known, on the other hand, is that the story of the Russian spy in Naples, already ennobled by some tabloids as “Putin’s Mata Hari”, has been occupying the Italian media intensively for around two weeks.
This also has to do with the campaign for the early parliamentary elections on September 25th. Because there is a suspicion that Moscow is trying to influence the outcome of the vote. In concrete terms, the Russian leadership would like to see parties whose leaders have shown sympathy for Moscow and, in particular, President Vladimir Putin, taking part in the next government in Rome. These are primarily the former interior minister Matteo Salvini, head of the right-wing nationalist Lega, and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, founder and chairman of the Christian Democratic Forza Italia. In fact, the two parties have good prospects of winning the elections in alliance with Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing conservative Italian Brothers party and forming the new government under Meloni’s leadership.