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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Russian Election: US President - Donald Trump, congratulates Russia's Vladimir Putin Over His Election Victory

Donald Trump
Having been re-elected by a landslide of more than 76% of total votes cast, Russia's President Vladimir Putin got another nod to became the country's President for a fourth term, on a six year term.

Notably, Putin faced no strong challenger in the polls, with the country's main opposition challenger Alexei  Navalny barred from contesting. This prompted the European observers to note that although the polls were efficiently conducted, there was deficit of genuine choice for the voters.

While congratulating Putin, Trump went on record stating that  "the arms race between the US and Russia is getting out of control... but we will never allow anybody to have anything close to what we have".

Vladimir Putin
Trump further stated that he hope meeting Putin in the so distant future to discuss among other things, the arms race issue.

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