Adrian McRae, who was elected to the Port Hedland council in early March, was reportedly flown to Moscow to observe the presidential elections.
A regional West Australian councillor has appeared in a bizarre video on Russian state-owned TV, congratulating President Vladimir Putin on his election victory.
McRae said he received a Badge of Honour, the highest award of the International Slavic Academy, from opposition candidate Sergey Baburin. Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the result was an “insult to democracy”, while British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said it had underlined the depth of repression of Putin’s regime, which “seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war”.
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