Some saw the vote as a more momentous geopolitical realignment. Boris Titov, the Kremlin's small-business ombudsman, said in a Facebook post that "it seems it has happened — UK out!!!"
"In my opinion, the most important long-term consequence of all this is that the exit will take Europe away from the anglo-saxons, meaning from the USA. It's not the independence of Britain from Europe, but the independence of Europe from the USA," he wrote.