Finish off the survivors. The origins and meaning of Russian Trumpism (TV)

The next episode of the journalistic diary includes entries from 2024-25, the main character of which unexpectedly turns out to be Donald Trump. The joker of world politics has become the last, albeit very weak, source of hope for the Russian-Ukrainian war to end it. The war is still going on, and Oleg Kashin is keeping its unique chronicle.

"This book is my personal defeat, a personal fiasco. I came up with the subtitle for it, “From Navalny’s funeral to the end of the war,” in the spring of 2024, when ISIA Media published my diary of the first two war years - “Nothing good. From the beginning of the war to Navalny’s funeral” in a red cover - and, in general, all that remained was to wait for the end of the war and submit the book for printing. Now that I see that texts written since then have accumulated for more than one book, it’s time to admit that my optimism has played a cruel joke on me, that is, I have been waiting for the end of the war, and I am still waiting, but there is no point in saving the texts for a volume that would end with a peaceful happy ending. Well, or, if you continue to be an optimist, it’s time to sum up the interim results in the format of the “Writer’s Diary”, remembering the period between the spring of 2024 and the middle. 2025."  Oleg Kashin