New Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Russian plane crash draw flak

French Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has drawn the ire of Russians over its cartoon about the latest Russian plane crash in Egypt.

The black and white cartoon shows a bearded man with a gun hunched down to save himself from a bomb, with the caption translating to "The Islamic State: Russian Aviation Intensifies Its Bombardments."

The second cartoon, in colour, shows a skull amidst gore and debris of a crashed plane with the caption - "The Dangers of Russian Low-Cost Airlines", "I should’ve flown Air Cocaine," reports Huffington Post.

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The illustrations have provoked outrage in Russia. "This has nothing to do with democracy, self-expression or whatever. It is pure blasphemy," Russian Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Russia's TASS news agency.

"The cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are nothing but another example of systematic immorality in self-advertising and shameless money-making on other people’s misfortunes and tragedies," the head of the Russian Federation Council’s international affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachyov slammed the magazine on his Facebook page, reports TASS news agency.

A Russian plane bound towards St Petersburg crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday killing all the 224 people onboard.