“We calculated, I was surprised myself - six months have not passed since the beginning of the year, Putin has already held about 140 telephone conversations with more than 40 leaders,” RIA Novosti quotes Ushakov.

He noted that since the beginning of the year, numerous personal contacts were held between the Russian president and foreign leaders who came to Moscow.

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he had at least 100 hours of telephone conversations with Putin since December.