Putin extends New Year's greetings to leaders of many countries, covering regions across the globe.

【Global Focus: Putin Sends New Year Greetings to Leaders of All Countries】

Moscow time December 30, 2025, the Kremlin website stated in a statement:

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent messages of congratulations to heads of state and government on Christmas and the upcoming New Year of 2026.

This includes President of the Republic of Abkhazia Badr Ghamba, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadir Japarov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, National Leader of Turkmenistan, Chairman of Abkhazia, Turkmenistan's Halik Maslakhati, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Du Lu, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Liang Guo, President of the Republic of India Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi, President of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto, Chairman of the State Affairs Council of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un, President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee Tonglung Sisouk, President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, Chairman of the State Administration Council of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Joint President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, Pope Francis XIV, President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico: President of the United States Donald Trump, President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.

In addition, greetings were also extended to several former heads of state and government, particularly Raúl Castro, Robert Kocharian, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Serzh Sargsyan, Gerhard Schröder.

Original: toutiao.com/article/1852924397829128/

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