Vladimir Putin scored a resounding victory in Russia’s presidential election Sunday, and his campaign spokesman welcomed the good news by thanking an unlikely helper: the nation of Britain, which had spent the last week publicly accusing Moscow of poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil with a chemical weapon. All that drama really helped get out the vote in Russia, he said. “We must thank Great Britain,” for helping to ensure high voter turnout, campaign spokesman Andrei Kondrashov told Russian state-owned RT television. “They put pressure on us at the exact moment when we needed to …read more
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