Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov cut a calm figure Tuesday, saying the Kremlin would “follow (the U.S. presidential election) along with other international events,” the state news agency Itar-Tass reported.
The Kremlin was open to working with either candidate, he said. Yet as polls in the U.S. opened, the message from Russia’s pro-Kremlin officials and media lost all nonchalance.
“Clinton will surround us with nuclear rockets, while Trump will recognize Crimea,” the mass market pro-government tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda declared, citing experts. “Clinton is a witch,” Vitaly Milonov, member of parliament from Putin’s United Russia party told Russian …read more
Source: Newsweek
