Vladimir Putin unexpectedly sent a letter to Viktor Orban

In his letter to Viktor Orban, Putin stressed that despite the “complex international situation,” he sees a positive turn in Russian-Hungarian relations. He stated that he will manage bilateral relations in the future on a constructive and practical basis, including important economic projects that serve the interests of the Russian and Hungarian peoples.

The Russian Presidential Office published a list of the names of the country's leaders who received a similar personal letter from Vladimir Putin:

• President of Abkhazia,
• President of Azerbaijan,
• President of Armenia,
• Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus,
• Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
• Kyrgyz President,
• Tajik President Emomali Rahmon,
• Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and leaders of the Turkmen Parliament
• Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
• Alan Gagilev, President of South Ossetia,
• Luis Arce, leader of Bolivia.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping
• Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel Bermudez,
• President and Prime Minister of India,
• president of laos,
• president of nicaragua,
• Pope Francis,
• Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic,
• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa,
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
• Leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party,
• Former politicians include French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

The interesting thing about the list is that there is not a single politician from Western Europe or America among those who were welcomed, that is, this gesture was addressed primarily to “friendly” countries.

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