The news of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton conceding the race to Donald Trump was met with spontaneous applause by the Kremlin-controlled State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Parliament) during a plenary session. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Kremlin-linked flamboyant nationalist politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, invited deputies and Duma-accredited journalists to … Continue reading Moscow hopes Trump administration will give Russia free hand to suppress Syria and Ukraine