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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Borenstein, Eliot

Titel

Conclusion: Making Russia Great Again

Ist Teil von

• Plots against Russia, 2019, p.237-242

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On November 9, 2016, Vyacheslav Nikonov, chair of the Russian Duma’s Committee on Education and Science, told his fellow legislators that Hillary Clinton had been defeated, and that Donald Trump was the new president of the United States, finishing his remarks with the words “Congratulations to all of you!” Whereupon the Duma burst into applause (NewsFromUkraine). To Americans who were already troubled by allegations that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, this was high melodrama, the moment when the villain chortles in triumph while twirling his mustache. Trump himself had done little to reassure the suspicious; on the contrary, his July