Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Fasting, praying and eating according to religious rules is impossible in some jails, ex-prisoners and groups say.

This is not just eccentric provocation by MAGA attention-seekers; it is a window into a serious, philosophical concordance that is emerging between parts of the American and Russian right.

Across state-controlled Russian media, disparaging references to “the collective West” and “Anglo-Saxons” – thinly-veiled diplomatic code for US-led states – have been quietly dropped.