As a group of diehard Russian nationalists sipped champagne a stone’s throw away from the Kremlin on Jan. 20, US president-elect Donald Trump appeared on screen in a Superman costume as part of a cartoon rap video celebrating his inauguration.
“Nobody thought this would happen, but it did,” said Andrei Afanasiev, a host on the ultraconservative Russian Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV, said as the several dozen Russians gathered in a hip co-working space — many with the long, flowing beards of devout believers — applauded.
