Nearly 200 delegates, including foreign affairs officers of the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations, scholars, and students of many universities and research institutes joined the conference on the current situation in the Russian Federation and cooperation between Vietnam and the Russian Federation on May 15 in Hanoi. The event was jointly organized by the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Vietnam.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue hosted receptions for the new ambassadors of Cuba and Russia in Hanoi on August 4.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong hosted a reception for Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Hanoi on July 6.