The Russian president is one of a handful of world leaders who have not commented on Biden's victory, which was called by major news organizations on Saturday.

The particular sleight of hand used this time was different, Matthew Fisher says, but the result of Russia's national referendum was the same: the country will get a lot more Putin.

Russia called the report "nonsense."

Trump over the weekend had raised the prospect of expanding the G7 to once again include Russia.

Trump arguably has stronger backing at home at the moment than the strongman in the Kremlin, whose personal popularity has been in slow decline, Matthew Fisher says.

Trump joked with Putin about election interference, while Theresa May awkwardly shook the Russian president‘s hand in a separate exchange.

Russia will abandon a centerpiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimir Putin said.

The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will discuss an array of issues, including nuclear arms control, at their meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

Russia said on Wednesday it still expects a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to go ahead as planned.

The U.S. version of what the top American and Russian diplomats discussed in their most recent telephone call makes no mention of Maria Butina, the Russian woman arrested by American authorities and suspected of being a covert Kremlin agent.