Valdai International Discussion Club

Russian President Vladimir Putin extended congratulations to Donald Trump following his victory in the U.S. presidential election and expressed Moscow's readiness for dialogue with the president-elect. "I would like to congratulate him on his victory in the U.S. presidential election," Putin remarked at the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on November 7.

Closing Russia's border with the self-proclaimed republics in the east of Ukraine would lead to a bloodbath there, says Vladimir Putin.

And Russia will never let happen, he said, according to TASS.