Putin's re-election: the West denounces a distorted vote, authoritarian regimes applaud. The master of the Kremlin can now rule until 2036.
“It doesn't matter who wants to crush us or how much, our will or our conscience. No one has ever managed to do something like this in history,” he told his excited campaign team. The other three candidates hardly diverged from the official line. Boris Nadezhdine, who wanted an end to the war in Ukraine, was excluded from the election, like Ekaterina Duntsova.