Answering a question about the legitimacy of the elections in the Russian Federation, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Vladimir Putin the leader of Russia. This was reported by RIA News.
Jean-Pierre noted that American leader Jake Sullivan’s national security advisor had previously responded well to the question about the legitimacy of Russia’s elections. Sullivan later stated that the truth is that Putin is the president of Russia and the United States will act on that basis.
On March 18, the current president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, officially to win After 100% of the protocols have been processed in the Presidential elections. According to data from the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC), it received 87.28 percent of the votes.
Before that, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov named Calls not to recognize the results of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation are “absurd”.
From March 15 to 17, voting in the presidential elections in Russia took place, including remotely.
For the first time since 2008, four candidates competed for the presidential post: Vladislav Davankov (New People), Vladimir Putin (as a self-nominated candidate), Leonid Slutsky (LDPR) and Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation).
Putin before named He is the only guarantor of protection against dictatorship.