- Title: Russians welcome Trump's triumph over Clinton in US election race
- Date: 9th November 2016
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 9, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KREMLIN AND RED SQUARE PEOPLE WALKING IN CENTRAL MOSCOW (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, EVGENY, SAYING: "I think relations (between Russia and the U.S.) will be more pragmatic - less ideology, more economy." PEOPLE ON STREET (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, OLGA, SAYING: "I think perhaps Trump is better than Hillary. Why? I think his attitude towards Russia is more loyal than Hillary's." PEOPLE ON STREET PEOPLE INSIDE U.S. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE TV SCREEN SHOWING U.S. TV CHANNEL BROADCAST VARIOUS OF MEN MARKING U.S. MAP ACCORDING TO STATES' VOTE RESULTS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA, JOHN TEFFT, WALKING BY (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AT RADIO STATION "ECHO OF MOSCOW", ALEXEI VENEDIKTOV, SAYING: "Already now we can say that personal relations (between Putin and Trump) will be complicated ones. First of all, Putin's and Trump's personalities are completely opposite. Secondly, for Russia as well as for the entire world, Trump is absolutely unpredictable. So, one should expect surprises, and our Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) doesn't like surprises very much. So, I'm absolutely sure it (the US-Russia relations) will be more complicated than with Obama and more complicated than it would have been with Hillary (Clinton). It doesn't matter if she was good or bad for Russia, she was predictable and represented traditional U.S. policy of containment towards Russia." PHOTOGRAPHS OF DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON IN FRONT OF U.S. FLAGS (SOUNDBITE) (English) RUSSIAN POLITICAL ANALYST, KONSTANTIN EGGERT, SAYING: "I think that it will be a difficult election. The two people are very different and they are probably as different as Obama and Putin are. I also think that Moscow's hopes that Donald Trump is all about deals are going to be probably shattered by two facts, first of all Trump's idea of a deal is that he gets 100 percent and the other side gets zero, that's exactly Vladimir Putin's idea of a deal too. So there is a contradiction there from the beginning." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT U.S. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE
- Embargoed: 24th November 2016 07:27
- Keywords: US election Trump Clinton
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA00257Q3JNR
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- Story Text: Russians early on Wednesday (November 9) welcomed Republican Donald Trump's triumph over heavily favoured Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's (November 8) U.S. presidential election, saying he will be more loyal towards Moscow.
The wealthy real-estate developer and former reality TV host's win ends eight years of Democratic rule, sending the United States on a new, uncertain path.
Moscow residents said Trump would be good for Russia.
"I think relations (between Russia and the U.S.) will be more pragmatic - less ideology, more economy," said Evgeny.
"I think perhaps Trump is better than Hillary. Why? I think his attitude towards Russia is more loyal than Hillary's," said Olga.
Trump has promised to warm relations with Russia that have chilled under President Barack Obama over Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention in the Syrian civil war and his seizure of Ukraine's Crimea region.
But editor-in-chief of independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, or Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, said a potential Trump-Putin relationship would be complicated.
"Already now we can say that personal relations (between Putin and Trump) will be complicated ones. First of all, Putin's and Trump's personalities are completely opposite. Secondly, for Russia as well as for the entire world, Trump is absolutely unpredictable. So, one should expect surprises, and our Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) doesn't like surprises very much," said Venediktov.
"So, I'm absolutely sure it (the US-Russia relations) will be more complicated than with Obama and more complicated than it would have been with Hillary (Clinton). It doesn't matter if she was good or bad for Russia, she was predictable and represented traditional U.S. policy of containment towards Russia," he added.
Russian political analyst, Konstantin Eggert, also said Russia was likely to be in for a disappointment.
"Moscow's hopes that Donald Trump is all about deals are going to be probably shattered by two facts, first of all Trump's idea of a deal is that he gets 100 percent and the other side gets zero, that's exactly Vladimir Putin's idea of a deal too. So there is a contradiction there from the beginning," said Eggert.
Trump rode a wave of anger toward Washington insiders to win the White House race against Clinton, the Democratic candidate whose gold-plated establishment resume includes stints as a first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state.
Worried a Trump victory could cause economic and global uncertainty, investors were in full flight from risky assets such as stocks, and the U.S. dollar sank. In overnight trading, S&P 500 index futures fell 5 percent to hit their so-called limit down levels, indicating they would not be permitted to trade any lower until regular U.S. stock market hours on Wednesday.
Trump, who at 70 will be the oldest first-term U.S. president, came out on top after a bitter and divisive campaign that focused largely on the character of the candidates and whether they could be trusted to serve as the country's 45th president.
The presidency will be Trump's first elected office, and it remains to be seen how he will work with Congress, even though Republicans were set to retain control of both chambers. During the campaign Trump was the target of sharp disapproval, not just from Democrats but from many in his own party.
Trump's national security ideas, opposed by most of the elite voices across the political spectrum, have simultaneously included promises to build up the U.S. military while at the same time avoiding foreign military entanglements.
He wants to rewrite international trade deals to reduce trade deficits. He has taken positions that raise the possibility of damaging relations with America's most trusted allies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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