Putin, a legitimate president recognized by the world, disappointed Ukrainian journalists in the EU
Even if the presidential elections in the Russian Federation had been held without Crimea, Vladimir Putin would still have won a landslide victory. This was stated in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe” by the President of the International Institute of Peace, ex-member of the European Parliament from the Social Democratic Party of Austria Hannes Svoboda, answering the question whether the holding of presidential elections in the Russian Federation in Crimea means the illegitimacy of the elections as a whole.…
