Ramaphosa congratulates Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election 

Johnathan Paoli

THE Presidency said on Wednesday, while congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory, that both countries had mutual cooperation at the multilateral level, including common membership of the UN, the G20, BRICS and other multilateral bodies.

Putin won a landslide re-election on Sunday, taking 87% of the vote, for his fifth term as the leader of the Russian Federation.

Russian Ambassador to South Africa, Ilya Igorevich Rogachev, emphasised that Russia and South Africa shared a similar vision for the future of geopolitics.

“It is absolutely necessary to mention that our countries share the view of the future world – the world we would like to live in, and we will live in, which is a polycentric world without the dominance of a single power or a single bloc of states,” Rogachev said.

The Presidency said that South Africa would continue to engage both Russia and Ukraine