Putin is congratulated less than six years ago

There were no chapters of democratic states in the list. Even Serbia ignored the victory

The CEC expectedly reported on the victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential election of 2024. However, this time Putin received much less congratulations from foreign leaders than after winning the 2018 election. Moreover, the leaders of a number of Western countries called the elections in Russia “not free”, “unfair” and “dishonest”. "Cold" tells how in the world they responded to the results of the Russian elections.

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According to Russian state news agencies, they congratulated on the current election of Putin:

• President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokaev ,
• Leader of China Xi Jinping ,
• President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev ,
• President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ,
• Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ,
• The leader of the ruling in Myanmar of the Military Junta Ming Aun Halls ,
• President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev ,
• President Nicaragua Daniel Ortega ,
• Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro ,
• President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon ,
• President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov ,
• The head of North Korea Kim Jong -un ,
• Cuban President Miguel Dias-Kanel ,
• President of Bolivia Luis Arsa ,
• President Honduras Siomar Castro
• Emir Kuwait Mishaal Al Ahmed al Jaber As Sabakh

According to the democracy index of The Economist, Honduras is considered to be the most developed democracy from the above countries - it takes 95th place in the 2023 ranking. On the second - Bolivia (106th place).

At the same time, in 2018, the list of congratulating Putin was much longer. Judging by the Kremlin website, then he was congratulated on the phone:

• President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev,
• Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,
• President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
• President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov,
• Leader of China Xi Jinping,
• President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon,
• President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Many leaders of the countries sent congratulatory letters:

• Head of China Xi Jinping,
• President of the Unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Raul Hadjimba,
• President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev,
• Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,
• President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
• President of Bolivia Evo Morales,
• Hungarian President Janosh Auders and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
• Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro,
• German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
• Egyptian President Abdelfatta Sisi,
• Italian President Sergio Mattarell,
• President Laos Bunnyang shows
• President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev,
• President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov,
• Cuban President Raul Castro,
• Moldovan President Igor Dodon,
• Serbia President Alexander Vucich,
• President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik,
• President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon,
• President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov,
• President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
• President of the unrecognized South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

At the same time, after the current elections, the leaders of many countries either refused to congratulate Putin on the victory, or completely criticized the voting in Russia.

The General Secretary of Japan Esimas Hayashi refused to congratulate Putin and comment on the results of the elections in Russia.

Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Sholts also did not congratulate Putin, and the Foreign Minister of this country Annalena Berobok said that "pseudo-devices in Russia are neither free nor honest, and the result did not surprise anyone." According to her, Putin’s rule is authoritarian, he relies on censorship, repression and violence.

“These elections were clearly neither free nor fair, given how Putin put political opponents in prison and did not allow others to run against him,” the American White House said .

“Free and honest elections look wrong,” David Cameron wrote on social network X Foreign Minister David Cameron.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis called the election of the President of Russia "tragic farce." According to him, this procedure was neither conscientious, nor free, and even more so did not comply with universally recognized democratic standards and the principle of the rule of law.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland said that the presidential election in Russia "is not legal, democratic and honest."

“There is no and cannot be legitimacy in this imitation of elections. This person must appear before the court in the Hague. This is what we must provide, ” said the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

France President Emmanuel Macron refused to congratulate Putin. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tayani said that the elections in Russia were neither free nor fair. The Czech Foreign Minister Yang Lipavsky called them "farce and parody."

In turn, the European Union expressed regret due to the lack of OSCE observers and criticized the vote, which "took place in conditions of strict restrictions."

“The elections took place in the conditions of an increasingly narrowing political space, which led to an alarming increase in civilian and political rights, did not allow many candidates to participate in the elections, including all those who opposed the illegal aggressive war of Russia, deprived Russian voters of real choice and greatly limited their access to reliable information,” the EU Supreme Representative said in a foreign affairs representative. Wrestling.