BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will not congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin for his re-election in a vote viewed by Berlin as neither free nor fair, a German government spokesperson said on Monday.
“The result was predetermined,” the spokesperson told a government press conference in Berlin, referring to Russia as a dictatorship.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke and Rachel More; editing by Matthias Williams)
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