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Russian President Vladimir Putin claims fifth term in inevitable election landslide - BBC News Russian election: West condemns 'pseudo-election' as Putin claims landslide win - BBC News
(about 8 hours later)
Nadia Ragozhina As we've been reporting, many Western authorities have criticised Russia's election as being neither free nor fair.
Live reporter Here's a quick summary of some of the reactions we've been hearing:
Thanks for being with us as we brought you the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin, as had been expected, claimed his fifth term in office. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Putin a "dictator" who is "drunk from power". "There is no evil he will not commit to prolong his personal power," Zelensky said
To read the full story, click here. In the United States, a White House spokesperson said the election was "obviously not free
This page was brought to you by Ece Goksedef, Pippa Allen-Kinross, Josh Cheetham, Malu Cursino, Sean Seddon and Paul Kirby, as well as Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and Sarah Rainsford in Kyiv, with contributions from BBC News, BBC Russian and BBC Ukrainian correspondents around the world. nor fair given how Putin has imprisoned political opponents
It was edited by Jack Burgess and me. and prevented others from running against him"
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron criticised the vote on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying "this is not what free and fair elections look like"
The German foreign ministry called the vote in Russia a "pseudo-election" and said "Putin's rule is authoritarian, he relies on censorship, repression & violence"
Meanwhile, the Polish foreign ministry said that it's "impossible to make a free, democratic choice" in the Russian election
But elsewhere, North Korean state media reported that Kim Jong Unsent Putin a message congratulating him on his victory
And a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson congratulated Putin, adding: "We firmly believe that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Putin, China-Russia relations will continue to move forward"
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