Russia has gone crazy for Trump/Trumpapalooza

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Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure
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The Washington Post
David Filipov 1 hr ago

MOSCOW — Call it Trumpomania. Or Trumpophrenia. Or any of a number of other Trumpisms that have popped up in Russia as this country counts down the moments to President-elect Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House.

Russia has gone crazy for Trump, and it’s not just because President Vladimir Putin and his government have been portraying the presidency of Barack Obama as one long, disastrous exercise in Russophobia, a message that state-run television has been hammering home for months.

Something about the advent of Trump has stirred the Russian soul. It’s almost as though the 45th president of Russia were about to take office on Friday.

Businesses have renamed their products after the world leader formerly known as The Donald. Talk show hosts have dedicated hours to the expression of hope that Trump will lift U.S.-Russian relations from their all-time post-Cold-War low (and in some cases to nasty, unabashedly racist farewells to President Obama). And the Russian Internet is surging with efforts to portray and explain the local Trumpapalooza.

“Trumpomania has taken hold of the country: the media, politicians and political analysts, astrologists, and housewives, none of them can calm down and mind their business,” Gennady Gudkov, a reserve colonel in Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, said in a post on his Facebook page. “In RUSSIAN news the main actor is His Majesty Trump.”

Gudkov, who has spent recent years criticizing Putin’s hold on power, posited that the reason for Trump’s popularity is “how interesting honest and competitive elections and their unpredictability are.”

But Viktoria Chekryzhova, director for development of the Tula Food Products Co., had a simpler explanation for her company’s decision to produce a limited number of boxes of sugar cubes featuring Trump’s likeness.

“With this product, we want to show that we hope that our relations with the United States will improve with the new president. We’re saying we hope our relations will become sweeter,” she said by phone from Tula, a city a 100 miles south of Moscow.

Other Russian companies have joined in. The newspapernews Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that it had discovered “several hundred” companies that include some sort of play on words on “Trump” (which in Russian is transcribed “Tramp”; Russian “Trump” would sound like “Troomp).

A weapons factory in ZlatoustZlatousk minted a commemorative coin with the inscription “In Trump We Trust,” according to the TASS news agency.

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Of course, the jubilation comes against the tumultuous backdrop of accusations of Russian cyberattacks first lodged by the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community (and recently acknowledged by Trump), as well as uncorroborated reports — which Trump has vehemently denied — that the president-elect has been compromised by Russian intelligence. Putin this week called the allegations an effort by Obama to sabotage his successor’s legitimacy.

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Now, Kiselyov said, this “technology of lies” was being used against Trump. He cited the unverified dossier on the Kremlin’s alleged blackmail of Trump, which is thought to have been composed by a former M16 agent.

“This is an English plot against the elected president of the U.S.,” Kiselyov said. “Now that is interference in American politics!”

Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure
 
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They love Trump so much their arresting their own people...
Russian Charged With Treason Worked in Office Linked to Election Hacking

The New York Times

By ANDREW E. KRAMER 7 hrs ago

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MOSCOW — The authorities in Moscow are prosecuting at least one cybersecurity expert for treason, a prominent Russian criminal defense lawyer confirmed on Friday, while a Russian newspaper reported that the case is linked to hacking during the United States presidential election.

While surely touching a nerve in American politics, the developments in Moscow left a still muddled picture of what, exactly, a series of arrests by the security services here signifies.

But the virtually simultaneous appearance of at least four prominent news reports on the hacking and several related arrests, citing numerous anonymous sources, suggests that the normally opaque Russian government intends to reveal more information about the matter, though it is unclear why.

In the waning weeks of the Obama administration, American federal intelligence agencies released a report asserting the Russian government had hacked into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, John D. Podesta, stealing and releasing to WikiLeaks emails intended to damage Mrs. Clinton and help President Trump win the election.

But the unclassified version of the report offered only thin corroborating information, many independent analysts have said. The treason arrests in Moscow hint at a possible human intelligence source in at least one hacking episode, the intrusion into state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois.

The confirmation by the Russian lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, in written answers to questions from The New York Times, was the closest so far to a formal acknowledgment that the Russian government has detained suspected spies within the cyberbranch of its Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., the main successor to the K.G.B.

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Mr. Pavlov declined to identify his client or elaborate on the reason for the indictment for “betraying the state,” punishable by up to 20 years in a penal colony.

Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, first reported Wednesday on what the Russian news media are calling a purge of the cyberbranch of the F.S.B. that was conducted in early December.

It reported that the Directorate for Internal Security, the agency’s internal affairs bureau, arrested Sergei Mikhailov, a deputy director of the Center for Information Security, the agency’s cybersecurity arm, and Ruslan Stoyanov, a senior researcher at a prominent cybersecurity company, Kaspersky Lab.

Novaya Gazeta, a respected Russian opposition newspaper, reported Friday that the internal investigation led to two other arrests, and that all of the detentions were related to American investigations into Russian hacking during the election.

The newspaper’s report, based on unnamed sources, said the F.S.B. began the internal investigation after news media reports that a United States cybersecurity company, ThreatConnect, had linked the election hacking to a Siberian server company. That company, King Servers, was otherwise used largely for criminal and marginal cyberactivities, such as distributing pornography and counterfeit goods, by the admission of its owner.

The report said the investigation led to Mr. Mikhailov, a senior officer involved in tracking criminal cyberactivity in Russia.

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Russian Charged With Treason Worked in Office Linked to Election Hacking
 

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