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Questions on Trump and Negotiations
This is a rather curious post because it tells me the alliance between Moscow and Washington is beyond temporary. It also raises a few more serious questions about the allegiance of the President of the United States.
Russian internal propaganda has always been a good weather vane as to how Russians think of their enemies and friends. At the risk of making pre-World War Two comparisons, the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement and its propaganda environment come to mind. So with no further, this from Important Stories:
EXCLUSIVE Trump has become much more interesting to the Russian-speaking Internet than Putin
Even before the US elections, the American president was written about more often in Telegram channels, VKontakte and X than Putin, CTD found out, using media monitoring data provided by the analytical center NEST . And after Trump took office, he began to surpass Putin in popularity several times over.
How we counted. Between October 1, 2024 and March 18, 2025, the NEST media monitoring system analyzed an average of about 600,000 messages from 130,000 sources daily. Half of these came from Telegram channels, 26% from VK, 16% from X, and the rest from Zen, Medium, and other platforms. About 70% of all messages taken from these sources were published in Russian, another 19% were in English, and the rest were…