German politicians have warned of the infiltration of democratic institutions and espionage by Russia through members of parliament from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). “For the AfD, the alternative for Germany is autocratic Russia,” Green Party politician Konstantin von Notz said in Berlin on Tuesday. “It is to be feared that the proximity of AfD MPs to dictatorships such as Russia, China, Syria and North Korea is not just ideological.” Members of parliament are authorized to deal with classified information even without security checks, said von Notz, who is deputy leader of the…