PANO - A photo exhibition, themed “Today’s Russian Federation Council”, opened in the afternoon of November 13th at the Russian Culture and Science Centre in Hanoi.

The exhibition was held on the occasion of the visit of Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council, Matvienko V.I., to Vietnam on the same day.

Addressing the opening ceremony, First Deputy Chairman of Committee of Science, Education, Culture and Information and Policy, Kosourov V.S., stressed that 30 exhibited photos will give Vietnamese viewers a general view on the Russian Federation Council.

He also said that the ties between Vietnam and the Russian Federation National Assemblies play a vital role in the relationship between the two countries, and the exhibition will open a new chapter for the cooperation between Vietnam and Russia in general, and between the two national assemblies in particular.

On this occasion, the organizing panel presented participants a set of Dostoevskiy’s works in Vietnamese, which was published under the instruction of the Russian Federation’s President.

Translated by Ngoc Bich