Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated on Merry Christmas and the coming New Year of some former heads of foreign states and government leaders, according to a message posted on the Kremlin’s official website.
In particular, Silvio Berlusconi (Italy), Robert Kocharyan (Armenia), Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Serge Sargsyan (Armenia), Gerhard Schreder (Germany).
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There is no ex-Chancellor of Germany Angels Merkel on this list.
Putin from the current European leaders sent congratulations to the New Year only to President Serbia Alexander Vuchich and Prime Minister Hungarian Viktor Orban.
About whether the President of the Russian Federation will congratulate the New Year, in particular, the presidents of the United States and France, as well as the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, the journalists asked the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“No, it will not be. Our counterparts themselves do not direct any congratulations. We now actually have no contacts with them. And taking into account the unfriendly actions that they are taking on an ongoing basis, the president will not congratulate them,” Peskov said .