Russia’s Vladimir Putin Sworn In As President For A Fifth Term
inauguration,” Matthew Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesperson, said on Monday.
“We certainly did not consider that election free and fair but he is the president of Russia and he is going to continue in that capacity.”
Britain, Canada and most European Union nations also decided to boycott the swearing-in, but France said it would send its ambassador.
Ukraine said the event sought to create “the illusion of legality for the nearly lifelong stay in power of a person who has turned the Russian Federation into an aggressor state and the ruling regime into a dictatorship.”
(Reuters)
