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Vietnam is one of the most favourite destinations of Russians for the New Year holiday, according to Maya Lomidze, Director of Association of Tour Operations of Russia (ATOR).

Vietnam condemns killing of Russian ambassador

President Tran Dai Quang on December 20 sent a message of condolence to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over the killing of Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov.

Moscow Day is expected to take place in Hanoi on 2017 as proposed by Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Ngoc Tuan.

The Vietnam Embassy in Russia is working to verify profiles of five people, allegedly Vietnamese, who were killed a recent traffic accident in Pskov region.

A regional symposium “Russian language in Southeast Asia” opened in Hanoi on December 15, attracting more than 200 delegates from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Russia.

The Russian Export Centre organised a trade promotion programme in Ho Chi Minh City on December 14 to facilitate the export of Russian foods into the Vietnamese market.

Economics, trade and investment should be focal cooperation fields of Ho Chi Minh City and Russia’s Kursk province, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of the Vietnamese city Le Thanh Liem said.

The central coastal province of Ninh Thuan and the Russian locality of Kursk signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on December 8 to strengthen cooperation.

Vietnam welcomes investors from Russia and Kursk province in particular and will provide them with all possible support, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh told Kursk Governor Alexander Mikhailov.

Vietnamese firms converged at a business forum in Hanoi on December 7 to learn about the potential of doing business in the Russian province of Kursk.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has highlighted the military-technical cooperation with the Philippines.

Vietnam is determined to continue strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperation with Russia, especially in politics, economy-trade, investment, security-defence, education-training, science-technology and culture-tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan affirmed.

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh reiterated the Vietnamese Party and leaders’ consistent policy of prioritising strengthening traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia