Long pulled, but gave up: Putin congratulated Biden on winning the elections

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his election victory. The details were shared by the edition with the BBC.

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Prior to that, Putin did not congratulate Biden on his victory, despite the fact that almost all world leaders did it back in November. The head of the Kremlin explained this by the fact that there are no official election results yet.

Putin sent Biden congratulations, in which “he wished the President-elect every success and expressed confidence that Russia and the United States, which bear special responsibility for global security and stability, can, despite their differences, really contribute to solving many problems and challenges that the world is currently facing ". About it says in the Kremlin message.

Putin noted that he is "ready for interaction and contacts."

Putin congratulated Biden six weeks after the election.

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14 December The US Electoral College confirmed Biden's victory in the elections - he received 306 electoral votes with the required 270. The US Congress must approve the results of the presidential election on January 6.

The current President of the United States, Donald Trump, has not yet officially admitted defeat in the election. He claims that the vote was accompanied by massive fraud.

Putin was in no hurry

The US presidential election was held on November 3. On November 7, Biden began to congratulate the heads of various states on the victory.

However, Putin was in no hurry to congratulate the newly elected president. He stressed that it is necessary to wait for the official results.

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When the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov was asked what is the difference between these elections and the elections of 2016, when Putin immediately congratulated Trump, he replied that "the difference is quite obvious."

“In the United States, certain legal procedures still need to be carried out, which were announced by the current president, so this is why the situation is different, so we consider it correct to wait for the official announcement,” Peskov said.

On November 26, Peskov reiterated that Moscow was waiting for an official summing up of the election results. When asked whether the fact that most world leaders had already congratulated Biden influenced Putin's decision, Peskov replied: "Absolutely not."

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