Donald Trump supporters in Russia are celebrating the swearing in of the new president in "Anonymous" masks, famously associated with hacking, at an inauguration party in Moscow.
Around a hundred Trump sympathisers, nationalist activists and spin doctors gathered in the vaulted hall of Moscow’s main Soviet-era post office to listen to watch the new president's speech, translated live, before opening Champaign bottles ahead of an all-night party.
Attendees posed for photos in front of embellished portraits of Mr Trump, Vladimir Putin, and hard-right French Front National leader Marine Le Pen, produced by an art group especially for the occasion. Several guests wore the masks which were made famous by the film V for Vendetta.
At one point, a cartoon image of superman with the face of Mr Trump appeared on the large screen, echoing chants heard at a Trump party the night before proclaiming Mr Trump as a superhero.
“Trump, Trump — it is unbelievable. Trump, Trump, he's a superman, Trump, Trump — symbol of America,” Willi Tokarev, a famed Russian-American singer-songwriter, had sung as he performed his new hit.
Several political experts spoke to the crowd during the event. Political scientist Aleksandr Dugin reportedly predicted Mr Trump would mean the US would end their "mission" to control the world, proclaiming: “America died from that mission”.
Another political analyst, Stanislav Byshok, described the Russian celebration as a "sign of the times", telling guests: “It's weird, but it's great, and for the first time ever Russians are applauding the victory of a US presidential candidate, it's a sign of the times."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-russia-anonymous-masks-supporters-celebrations-a7538541.html
One of the organisers, Konstantin Rykov, who has served as a Russian MP affiliated to Putin’s United Russia Party and has also been described as a “Kremlin web propagandist”, wrote on Facebook ahead of the event: “Washington will be ours”.
The elation of the event feeds into the "Trumpomania" that appears to have gripped Russia since Mr Trump won the presidential victory in November.
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Silver and gold commemorative coins engraved with “In Trump We Trust” have emerged amid the frenzy, while new Trump matryoshka dolls have been added to the popular line-up of, including dolls carved in the likeness of President Putin and Josef Stalin.
Mr Trump's praise for Putin has raised expectations that he could move to build bridges between the countries, although the new president hasn't articulated a clear policy and some of his Cabinet nominees have made hawkish statements on Russia.
Leonid Slutsky, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, expressed hope that Mr Trump would move to establish constructive ties with Moscow, but cautioned there was no “magic button” to instantly achieve that, saying: “We expect a slow but steady revival of our relations."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov expressed hope that Mr Trump would work with Mr Putin on solving the Ukrainian crisis and other problems, but added: “Difficulties will remain".
>Independent
get the fuck out of here with that clickbait garbage
>>102002
this demonstrably happened
they've not been particularly discreet about it
>>102003
>Russians celebrate the election of a foreign leader who wants friendly ties between their nations, after the last leader tried to throw the world back into a cold war.
Boy, I wonder why they're happy?
Must be something insidious, those dirty foreign America haters.
>>102004
“Washington will be ours” is not a terribly encouraging note on which to start a friendship of mutual interest
>>102005
I'm generally not a fan of my government pursuing much of mutual interest with any autocrat.
It's a sad day when Americans are less patriotic of their new President then Russians are of him.
>>102066
>patriotism is good
Cringe
>>102067
The Nazis nearly took over the world with the power of patriotism; let's see what the US can do when reinvigorated with nationalism.
>>102068
>The Nazis nearly took over the world
>literally trapped by the Royal Navy (and later USN) to the west, the USSR to the east, the Royal Army+Navy again to the south, and the polar ice cap to the north (and the RN again because fuck you Britannia rules the waves)
>left the European continent once to go to North Africa, could barely even cross the Mediterranean without being rekt by the RN and RAF
>kicked out of North Africa because they can't even supply their troops
>most conquests were of lower ranked powers that would have fallen to the first major power to sneeze at them
>the only major power they beat, France, was already devastated by the first world war and completely mismanaged their defensive plan
>nearly took over the world
Even World War 1 was more global than the Nazi empire, and most people view WWI as a European war.
>>102006
So why aren't you up in arms over our ties with saudi arabia?
>>102742
You know he's not?
How exactly?
>>102745
Knowledge doesn't exist, just my guess.
>>101999
http://fortune.com/2017/01/25/donald-trump-russia-approval-ratings/
>>103861
>muh russia boogieman
what is this, the 50's