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Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a meeting with journalists after a live broadcast nationwide call-in in Moscow, Russia, April 14, 2016.
"I have said he is flamboyant," Putin told the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. "He is, isn't he? I did not give any other assessment of him."
He also said that based on Trump's remarks, he favors restoring full U.S.-Russia relations.
"What's wrong with that?" Putin asked.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning, Katya Golubkova and Christian Lowe; Writing by Lidia Kelly, editing by Jason Bush)