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  • Donald Trump's Popularity Poses Unexpected Dilemma for Putin

    02/06/2025 12:28:00 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 2/6/2025 | Isabel van Brugen
    U.S. President Donald Trump is proving to be somewhat popular within Russia, leaving the Kremlin to grapple with how to counter Russians' love of a leader who isn't President Vladimir Putin, recent media reports suggest. -snip- Alexander Baunov, the editor-in-chief of Carnegie Politika and a senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, said in an analysis published on January 31 that in Russia, Trump is a new "anti-elitist president" who, "like a beloved Hollywood lone hero, is closer and more understandable to the generation of the Russian elite that lived through the 1990s or grew up watching American movies than...