Russia Reacts to Trump's Inauguration With Cautious Enthusiasm

Russian authorities media, officials and salient bloggers responded to Donald Trump’s inauguration arsenic U.S. president with cautious enthusiasm connected Monday, hoping for improved ties but noting that his unpredictable benignant could backfire connected Moscow.

President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, congratulated Trump connected assuming office, saying that Moscow "welcomes" his attack towards Russia.

On authorities television, Channel 1 aired a little quality conception astatine the 11-minute people of its Monday day broadcast reporting that Trump would instrumentality bureau connected Jan. 20.

“He erstwhile again promised to extremity the Ukrainian conflict, halt the chaos successful the Middle East and forestall a 3rd satellite war,” the quality anchor said.

The Rossia 24 broadcaster said Trump “was so capable to link with astatine slightest that portion of the federation that is precise tired,” listing issues specified arsenic “support for wars,” what it referred to arsenic the “transgender issue” and rising prices.

“The full satellite is wondering what to expect from him successful the end. It feels similar nary 1 tin beryllium astatine ease… As they say, we are waiting. It decidedly won’t beryllium boring,” said media property Ksenia Sobchak, the girl of 1 of Putin’s aboriginal governmental allies and the president’s alleged goddaughter.

The U.S. has been Kyiv’s apical protagonist passim Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine, delivering billions of dollars successful subject assistance that Trump has regularly criticized. Trump has besides pledged to extremity the warfare upon assuming office, but however helium plans to bash truthful remains unclear.

Starshe Eddy, a Russian pro-war Telegram channel, weighed in connected however Trump mightiness alteration the people of the three-year warfare to its 608,000 subscribers.

“In a fewer hours, each Ukrainian media outlets and politicians volition commencement throwing ungraded astatine aged Grandpa Joe [Biden], hoping that blessings volition determination down connected them” from Trump, the transmission said.

“The funniest happening is that we besides person those who anticipation to get a sensation of these blessings — reasoning that possibly Good Donald, with a changeable of his pen, volition enactment an extremity to the peculiar subject operation, allowing them to instrumentality to their aged ways, escaped of idiosyncratic and firm sanctions, partying with escorts successful Monaco and philosophizing astir the greater good,” it added.

Alex Parker Returns, different Z-channel connected Telegram with 249,000 subscribers, besides downplayed the thought that Trump’s instrumentality is guaranteed to bring affirmative changes for Russia. 

“One happening is definite — everything volition beryllium wholly antithetic nether [Trump],” the transmission wrote. “Now, an wholly caller platform volition beryllium dealt with crossed galore areas and directions of planetary authorities and economics. Different doesn’t needfully mean better. There are nary win-win deals.”

In his televised statement, Putin said Moscow had been watching statements from Trump and his squad “expressing a tendency to reconstruct nonstop contacts with Russia, which were severed done nary responsibility of ours by the outgoing administration.”

"We besides perceive his statements astir the request to bash everything imaginable to forestall a 3rd satellite war. We surely invited this attack and congratulate the recently elected U.S. president connected assuming office,” Putin said, adding that Moscow “never refused dialogue” with immoderate U.S. administration.

Putin’s code connected Monday marked a displacement from the Kremlin’s stance successful November, erstwhile it declined to congratulate Trump connected his daze predetermination victory, describing the U.S. arsenic “unfriendly” toward Russia.

U.S.-Russia relations person been astatine historical lows since the full-scale penetration of Ukraine, which was followed by a flurry of Western sanctions connected Russia.

Trump, however, has agelong praised Putin, claiming that helium has a “very bully relationship” with the Russian leader.