Russia gripped by Trumpomania as nationalists hold an all-night inauguration party and craftsmen cash in with Donald merchandise
Russian media giving the President-elect blanket air time over domestic news
The Kremlin is hoping Donald Trump will ease sanctions imposed over the annexation of Crimea and team up with Russia against Islamic State
He also hopes Trump will cut back NATO military activity near Russian borders
Craftsmen in Russia have released a limited series of commemorative coins, engraved with ‘In Trump We Trust’
Russian nationalist are holding an all-night party at what used to be the main Soviet-era post office in Moscow
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN
DailyMail.com
20 January 2017
The Kremlin may have spent years reviling America, but Russians hoping Donald Trump will usher in a new era of detente marked his inauguration on Friday with parties and trinkets from commemorative coins to ‘matryoshka’ nesting dolls in his image.
Washington was turned into a virtual fortress with an estimated 900,000 people – backers and protesters – descending on the capital.
In London, anti-Trump activists draped a banner reading ‘Build Bridges Not Walls’ from Tower Bridge. Protests were planned across western Europe on Friday and Saturday.
But according to Gennady Gudkov, a Putin critic and former lawmaker, Russia is in the grip of ‘Trumpomania’, with state media giving the President-elect blanket air time at the expense of more mundane and sometimes depressing domestic news stories.
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