Russian President Putin ends holdout, congratulates Biden on election victory

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on successful the U.S. presidential election just after months of holding out.

Putin’s message to Biden came a day just after the Electoral Higher education confirmed Biden as the nation’s subsequent president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative condition-by-condition repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede that he experienced lost.

The Kremlin experienced said earlier that the Russian president would hold off on congratulating Biden right up until the winner was officially confirmed. “We are just waiting for the conclusion of the inner political confrontation,” Putin said previous month, referring to many Republican problems to the vote rely.

In his information, Putin wished Biden “every results,” in accordance to a Kremlin assertion Tuesday, and expressed confidence that “Russia and the U.S., which bear special accountability for world wide security and security can, regardless of the dissimilarities, truly add to resolving many problems and issues that the earth is at present experiencing.”

The Russian president observed that “the Russian-American cooperation primarily based on the principles of equality and mutual respect would satisfy the passions of the individuals in both of those countries and the full intercontinental group.”

“For my component, I am prepared for conversation and make contact with with you,” Putin was quoted by the Kremlin as expressing.