The Capitol Storming Gives Russians an Escape From Their Reality

For Russian audiences, the storming of the U.S. Capitol worked less as foreign news than as psychological relief. Attention could be redirected outward, toward Western disorder, and away from a domestic reality that state media preferred to keep emotionally unexamined.

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