'History will judge Putin poorly,' Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said after Russia's president secured his fifth term in an election many view as a sham.
, “history will judge Putin poorly for his authoritarianism, war and the illegal attempted annexation of the territory of a neighbouring country.”Putin has led Russia as president or, briefly, as prime minister since 1999. By the time his latest term expires in 2030 , he will have ruled longer that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and will be the longest-serving Russian leader since the 18th-century Tsarina Catherine the Great.
A spokesperson for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Russia “is now a dictatorship and is ruled by Vladimir Putin in an authoritarian manner.”The Kremlin dismissed any criticism, saying Putin winning 87 per cent of the vote shows the Russian people are consolidating around him.
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