Russia has condemned the weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons on the Russian plane crash in Egypt.

Russia denounced the publication of cartoons by the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on the Egypt plane crash in which 224 people died, most of them Russian tourists.

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The Kremlin angrily condemned the magazine terming the cartoons unacceptable.

One of the cartoons, which were published in this week’s edition, shows debris and human remains raining down on an armed IS militant, with the caption: "IS: Russian aviation is intensifying bombardments," a reference to its air strikes in Syria.

Other shows a skull with a pair of sunglasses hanging off it with the crashed plane in the background.

It is titled "The dangers of Russian low-cost airlines", and the speech bubble says "I should have taken Air Cocaine," a reference to a current scandal over French pilots smuggling drugs from the Dominican Republic.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the cartoons had nothing to do with democracy or self-expression.

“In our country we can sum this up in a single word: sacrilege,” he said.

Writing on Twitter, the lower house of parliament's international affairs chief Alexei Pushkov asked: "Is there any limit to Russophobia on the pages of Western media?

“As the whole world condoles with us, Charlie Hebdo preaches its vile right to sacrilege.”

Russian state television news gave lengthy coverage to criticism of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, which it did not show.

“It's not satire but filthy mockery,” said the deputy speaker of the lower house, Ivan Melnikov, in televised comments.

The cartoons, published on Wednesday, have not been widely covered in French media.

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