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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he won’t be congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election, his spokeswoman told the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel. “There will be no letter to Putin,” the publication quoted spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin as saying. “Today I am thinking of the people in Russia who are fighting for freedom and democracy and who live in constant danger from Putin’s regime. We will not forget these courageous people,” Steinmeier said in a Sunday post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The German Foreign Office earlier had said on X: “The …

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