Russian nationalists attending the party will also be
treated to a “presentation of the political concept of Triptych” by an art
group which has created flattering portraits of Putin, Trump and Marine Le Pen,
the hard-right French Front National leader.
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Rykov wrote on his facebook page: “I beg you all to try to
get to [the venue] no later than 19:30 [Moscow time]. Otherwise, you'll miss
the most important point "presidential oath", as well as sparklers,
party poppers and champagne.”
The party, to be held in what was once Moscow’s main
Soviet-era post office, is due to be televised on Tsargrad TV, a pro-Putin
Russian Orthodox TV channel.
It appears to feed in to what has been called Russian
“Trumpomania” since the US election result, which in Russia was greeted by the
issue of commemorative coins and matryoshka dolls.
Trump takes oath to become 45th President
It also comes amid reports that the US intelligence agencies
are investigating links between Russian officials and associates of Trump.
The man about to become the 45th President of the US has
already angrily dismissed as “fake news” a leaked dossier in which an ex-MI6
officer made unverified claims that the Russians had been cultivating Trump for
years and had compromising information on his activities with prostitutes.
The Kremlin has also denied the claims in the dossier and
said it did not seek to influence the outcome of the US election.
Rykov, however, reportedly made little secret of his support
for Trump during the US presidential election.
In March Reuters reported that he told his social media
followers: “Trump is the first member of the American elite in 20 years who
compliments Russia. Trump will smash America as we know it, we've got nothing
to lose.
"Do we want the grandmother Hillary? No. Maybe it's
time to help the old brigand."
At least some of the popular enthusiasm for Trump in Russia
appears to stem from a hope that his presidency will ease tensions between the
two countries and lead to a lifting of sanctions imposed over the annexation of
Crimea.
In the immediate aftermath of the US election result, Putin
critic and former Russian parliamentarian Gennady Gudkov said: “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.
“In Russian news the main actor is His Majesty Trump.”
Gudkov claimed state media was giving Trump blanket air time
at the expense of more mundane and sometimes depressing domestic news stories.
Sellers of traditional matryoshka nesting dolls have added
Trump dolls to their popular line-up of items carved in the likeness of
President Vladimir Putin, Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, ex-President
Mikhail Gorbachev and Josef Stalin.
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Craftsmen in the city of Zlatoust, east of Moscow, have
released a limited series of silver and gold commemorative coins, engraved with
"In Trump We Trust" - an allusion to the phrase on US banknotes
"In God We Trust".
And in what may be a play on the suspected sympathies of US
diplomats – some of them Barack Obama appointees reportedly told to vacate
their posts by Trump – a Russian Army store opposite the US embassy in Moscow
is offering 10 per cent discounts for embassy staff and US citizens.
The shop has also put up a poster with Trump’s picture to
advertise its inauguration day discounts.
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