MOSCOW, May 9. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s international agenda on the sidelines of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War promises to be quite busy. Kremlin Foreign Policy Aide Yury Ushakov said earlier that due to the fact that this year’s anniversary is not a round number, the Kremlin decided not to send special invitations to foreign leaders. Nevertheless, many high-ranking foreign guests expressed a desire to come to Moscow.
Putin will hold separate meetings with many of them on May 9. Among them Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia Supreme Leader Sultan Ibrahim, President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloyev, President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) President Sinisa Karan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Nenad Stevandic, and head of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats party of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik.
These kinds of celebrations also typically serve as opportunities for informal communication, so other contacts may arise spontaneously in the Russian leader’s work schedule.
Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified that Vladimir Putin will hold more than ten meetings on May 9.
