Brussels Break-In Shines Light on Russia’s European Mischief

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.

Photographer: Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images
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It was an unusual delivery at the European Parliament by a pair of native Russians.

They broke into the third-floor mailroom and deposited for the 751 legislators English-language copies of “Red Dalia,” a scathing biography of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, according to a parliamentary probe. The book, published after she accused Vladimir Putin of running a “terrorist state,” alleged that she collaborated with the KGB during the Soviet era.