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In a viral video circulating online, a man wearing a fur hat emblazoned with the Soviet army logo is filmed joking around in a room of the upmarket Moscow hotel at the centre of lurid claims about US president-elect Donald Trump.

The slick production was published on Jan. 12 by In the Now, a video channel with nearly 1.3 million Facebook fans that promises to bring alternatives to “stories the mainstream media has already beamed into your brain on the way to work”.

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