In particular, Mr Putin received condolences from the following leaders:
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Armenia Sergei Sargsyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bolivia Evo Morales, President of Hungary Janos Ader, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, President of Germany Joachim Gauck, President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, President of Iceland Olafur Grimsson, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of China Xi Jinping, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic Republic of North Korea Kim Yong Nam, President of Latvia Raimonds Veijonis, President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti, Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte, President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic, President of Slovenia Borut Pahor, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, President of France Francois Hollande, President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven, Pope Francis, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
Mr Putin also received telephone calls from foreign leaders, expressing their condolences to the Russian people following the tragedy. The President received telephone calls from Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron, Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras, and Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi.
