H.E. Dr. Saman Weerasinghe, Ambassador of Sri Lanka met Prof. Aleksander V. Rozhdestvenskiy, Acting Rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), on 10th November 2015. Moscow Aviation Institute was founded in 1930 to train qualified personnel for the aviation industry. Since its founding, MAI has trained more than 160,000 professionals including several Sri Lankans in aviation, space science, and industry.

Addressing the high level segment of the Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in the Russian City of St. Petersburgh on 3 November 2015, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Harsha de Silva stated that the Government of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe, has taken a host of measures to prevent corruption, to seek out stolen assets and to build the capacity for effectively curbing corruption and bribery, in an effective, comprehensive, result-oriented manner.