Vladimir Putin extends New Year greetings to leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia

Russian President Vladimir Putin today extended his greetings on Christmas and the upcoming New Year 2026 to heads of foreign states and governments, according to a statement on the Kremlin website.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent congratulatory messages on the occasion of Christmas and the upcoming New Year, 2026, to the heads of foreign states and governments. Among them are President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan," the statement reads.

The Russian leader's greetings were also received by President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow and the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev.

Congratulatory telegrams from the Russian president were sent to President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán, President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam, President of Vietnam Lương Cường, President of India Droupadi Murmu, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto, President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un, President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Co-Presidents of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, Pope Leo XIV, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, Head of Government of Slovakia Robert Fico, U.S. President Donald Trump, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Ethiopia Tayye Atskeselassie, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, and President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.

Greetings from the Russian leader were also extended to former heads of foreign states and governments - Raúl Castro, Robert Kocharyan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Serzh Sargsyan, and Gerhard Schröder, the message stated.