Russia’s Proto-Trumpist Party a Magnet for the Far Right - WhoWhatWhy

Russia’s Proto-Trumpist Party a Magnet for the Far Right - WhoWhatWhy

What unites the suspected killer of a turncoat intelligence officer, an arms trafficker who served 10 years in a US jail, and a lawmaker who snubbed accusations of sexual harassment? Ask almost any Russian and they will bark out a short acronym — the LDPR, Russia’s oldest and largest nationalist party, which predated Trumpism by decades and now wants to rebrand itself as a middleman between the Kremlin and the growing legion of far-right groups …