“Strengthening friendship” –

No surprises, just a confirmation. The outgoing president of Russia has won the elections, obtaining a fifth six-year term at the helm of the country. If he completes it, the tsar would become Russia’s longest-serving political leader in two hundred years. The president of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, sent Putin a message to congratulate him on his victory in the elections. This is what we read in a message published on the Hamas Telegram channel. Haniyeh said in particular that the movement counts on “strengthening ties of friendship and developing cooperation” with Russia. The leader of the Palestinian political and paramilitary organization also wished the Russian president success in his work and success in building a multipolar world. There was no shortage of praise for Putin’s positioning regarding the “Palestinian question”.

Meanwhile, the discussion on the alleged falsification of votes continues to take center stage. Novaya Gazeta Europe, based on the calculations of the mathematician and independent analyst Sergey Shpilkin, even speaks of half. According to the independent newspaper, this is fraud on a record scale for the presidential elections in Russia. As reported in an article by Adnkronos, “excluding votes with the electronic system, official data report that 74.5 million voters went to the polls. Of these, approximately 64.7 million voted for Putin, but the calculations by Shplikin indicate that at least 31.6 million of these votes were falsified. To obtain these numbers, the analyst compared the distribution of votes obtained by the candidates with the turnout in each polling station, in order to understand how many votes are been ‘added’ to the winner.”