The Russian head of state sent his New Years greetings to foreign heads of state including: President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko, Prime Minister of Canada Steven Harper, Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean, Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown, President of Germany Horst Koehler, Federal chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, President of India Pratihbe Patil, Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, Emperor Akihito of Japan, Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Moldavia Vladimir Voronin, President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, President of the United States George Bush, President-elect of the United States Barak Obama, and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
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