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Russian election latest: West condemns Russian election but China and India back Putin's win - BBC News Russian election latest: West condemns Russian election but China and India back Putin's win - BBC News
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The European Union has denounced Russia's presidential election result, saying that the elections "took place in a highly restricted environment" where there was "systematic internal repression". Laura Gozzi
A joint statement from all 27 European Union countries says Russians have been denied a "real choice" after all candidates opposed to the war in Ukraine were excluded. Europe reporter
The EU has condemned the staging of the vote in regions of Ukraine occupied by Moscow and says "it does not and will never recognise either the holding of these so-called 'elections' in the territories of Ukraine or their results".
The EU highlights the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the run-up to the elections as a clear sign of "systematic repression". Western countries have
Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, has said ministers meeting in Brussels are expected to impose sanctions on prison officials involved in Navalny's death in an Arctic prison colony last month. dismissed the results of Russia's election.
Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign
affairs chief, has said on behalf of the bloc that the election took place
amid systematic repression. Several EU countries, including France and Germany, have outright said they would not congratulate President Putin.
And so, Putin will have
to look way beyond Europe if he wants to hear words of praise for the stunning
electoral victory the Kremlin maintains he has won.
Beijing congratulated
Putin early on. China's President Xi Jinping has said the election's result "fully
reflects the support of the Russian people".
The presidents of Iran
and Belarus have called Putin's victory "decisive" and
"stunning" respectively.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and
Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel were similarly gushing, as were all the leaders of the central Asian countries with whom Russia maintains a close relationship.
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