Matthew Luxmoore is a Moscow-based correspondent for RFE/RL.
Four years ago, Russian state TV pumped out reports lauding Donald Trump and his pledges to make up with Moscow. As votes are counted this time around, the focus from state media and public commentators is on another theme familiar to Russian audiences: the uncertainty of American democracy.
Some 600 opposition supporters have been detained by riot police in Moscow, a week after a similar demonstration in the Russian capital ended in a police crackdown with more than 1,300 detained.
Residents of a housing estate outside Moscow are cooking food on portable stoves after their energy provider switched off electricity citing nonpayment. Turns out the head of their homeowners association is running a huge bitcoin mine in the garage.
