VOV.VN - Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin is scheduled to pay an official visit to Vietnam on October 15-16 to help further promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, and cooperation between the two legislative bodies.

VOV.VN - Speaker of the State Duma (Lower House) of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin will pay an official visit to Vietnam on October 15-16, according to the National Assembly Committee for Foreign Affairs.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of National Defense Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, member of the Central Military Commission, held a meeting on June 26 with Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Gennady Stepanovich Bezdetko.

VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong received Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, in Hanoi on June 19.

VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 22 met with Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of the United Russia Party (URP) and deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, who is in Hanoi for an official visit.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches great importance to the comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, affirmed Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during his talks with Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of the United Russia Party and deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in Hanoi on May 22.

VOV.VN - China spent more than US$397 million buying one million tonnes of cassava in the first four months of the year, thereby becoming the largest importer of Vietnamese cassava, according to statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

VOV.VN - Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko on April 7 visited the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, a scientific research organization in Hanoi established under an agreement between the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 6 received Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko, who is in Vietnam for an official visit and to co-chair the 24th session of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for economic, trade and scientific-technical cooperation.

The Vietnam - Russia Tropical Centre under the Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on March 7 to celebrate its 35th traditional day (March 7) and receive the first-class Labour Order.