FACTBOX-International reaction to Putin election win

(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won a landslide victory in a Russian parliamentary election on Sunday.

Here are the reactions on Monday of other countries and international organizations:

GERMAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN THOMAS STEG:

"There can be no doubt. Measured by our standards, it was neither a free, fair nor democratic election.

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER

Steinmeier said he regretted that OSCE observers had not been able to play a bigger role in monitoring the vote.

"It was clear there would be doubts about how the results were reached," he told reporters in Berlin. "And indeed there have been charges raised that the election did not proceed according to the principles of the OSCE. I expect that Russia will investigate all these charges and will clarify the charges."

FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN

"We have noted the allegations of irregularities concerning this election, although we are not able to assess their impact on the election result," a spokeswoman for the French foreign ministry told an online news briefing.

"We hope that the Russian authorities are able to shine a light on these allegations," she said.

BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTRY

"It is vital that the Russian Central Election Commission urgently investigates all allegations of electoral abuses," the ministry said in a statement.

EU EXTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER BENITA FERRERO-WALDNER

"We saw some violations of basic rights, notably free speech and assembly rights" in the run-up to the election.

Ferrero-Waldner told reporters she preferred to wait for reports from election monitors before commenting on the vote itself, but said problems were evident ahead of the elections.

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