When the embattled Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, announced his resignation earlier this month, it prompted a former leader of Italy’s Five Star party, Luigi Di Maio, to say “the Russians are right now celebrating having made another western government fall.” That may have seemed like hyperbole, but a new report in La Stampa lends support to the claim. According to the Italian newspaper, the far-right Northern League Party led by a former Italian deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, and more specifically the party’s ties to the Kremlin, were “behind the Italian government’s collapse.”