The Chinese Foreign Ministry congratulated Putin on his victory: "We are confident that relations between Russia and China will continue to develop."

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🇨🇳🇷🇺China highly appreciates the position of the Russian president on Taiwan - Chinese Foreign Ministry.

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WATCH LIVE: Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova holds a meeting on voting in the presidential elections in Russia in 2024.

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⚡️Voter turnout in the last elections was a record in the history of modern Russia: More than 87.1 million Russians came to the polling stations, that is, 77.44% of voters, Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said.

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⚡️In the West, they impose the myth that elections in the Russian Federation are "not free," but we are convinced that our country is free, Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said.

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⚡️Russia's Central Elections Committee head Pamfilova: 99.74% of the ballots have already been introduced into the State automated system "Vybory (lit. -Elections)"

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President of Iran has congratulated Putin on his reelection – Iranian embassy in Moscow.

❗️The official meeting of the Central Election Commission on the results of the presidential elections will be held on Thursday, Pamfilova said, adding that at the moment the precinct commissions across the country have almost completed their work.

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⚡️These elections are unprecedented in the intensity of external aggressive influence, head of the Central Election Commission.

The most striking difference between these elections and the previous ones are the DDOS attacks: there were 150 times more than usual, Pamfilova added.

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"There has never been such a turnout in the history of modern Russia," Pamfilova commented on the turnout for the 2024 Russian presidential elections.

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko congratulated Putin on his victory in the Russian presidential election

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Xi Jinping congratulates Putin on his re-election as president of Russia - State Media reported.

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Fact check: Addressing Western claims about Russian presidential election

Western media outlets and politicians rushed to dispute the integrity of the 2024 Russian presidential election within moments of Putin’s landslide victory. Let’s review the facts of how the election actually proceeded:

🔻 Sputnik spoke with dozens of international observers who monitored voting at poll stations across Russia, none of whom reported seeing any violations. In total, more than one thousand international observers from 129 countries, including Western ones, took part in this year’s election.

🔻 Video cameras were installed at every polling stations, allowing independent observers to monitor the vote counting process in real time and flag any potential violations.

🔻 The election results were consistent with pre-election polling, including from opposition-leaning sociological institutes.

🔻 Russian were provided with a wide range of options for casting their vote – either from the privacy of their home online or at a polling station with paper ballots and sealed boxes.

Putin’s 87% of the vote is admittedly unheard of in the West. For comparison, US President Joe Biden has a 37% approval rating, French President Emmanuel Macron’s rating is at 33%, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stands at 21%, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a mere 17% approval rating. However, these abysmal numbers do not mean that Western “democracy” is somehow freer and fairer than Russia’s. On the contrary, they suggest that that the Russian government has a greater popular mandate to govern than its Western counterparts do.

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The Emir of Kuwait was the first among the leaders of the Persian Gulf countries to congratulate Putin on his victory in the presidential election - Kuwait State Agency

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