It has not been decided yet how Russian President
Vladimir Putin will greet the US president-elect, Kremlin Spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said when asked how President Putin would
congratulate the winner of the US presidential
election.
"There are different options. A telegram of greetings is the
most widely used diplomatic way to congratulate somebody," Peskov
noted. "But I don’t know which option President Putin will choose,"
he stressed adding that "there is no need to run ahead of the race"
before the elections’ results have been announced.
In 2012, when Barack Obama was re-elected to his second
presidential term, Putin forwarded a telegram of congratulations to
him the day after the elections. A few days later the two leaders
held a telephone conversation during which the Russian president
once again congratulated his US counterpart.