Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulates Russian President Vladimir Putin on his "re-election" Criticism immediately came from Brussels. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas: "I refuse to call it an election.
I call it a special operation for nomination" Russia's goal is to undermine European elections and make people believe "that everything is the same," Kallas said before the EU summit began in Tallinn, Estonia. The "election" in Russia was neither free nor fair, she said.