Britain's foreign minister David Cameron said the Russian election result showed 'the depth of repression' under President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin praised Putin’s landslide re-election for a fifth term in office as “eloquent confirmation” of the people’s support.was neither free nor fair, dismissed the poll outcome as undemocratic.
“Putin removes his political opponents, controls the media, and then crowns himself the winner. This is not democracy,” he added. “The death of Alexei Navalny just weeks before the election was a tragic reminder of the severity of political repression in Russia today.” Opposition politician Kara-Murza, 42, was jailed last April for 25 years – the harshest sentence so far for speaking out against the war in Ukraine.