H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka participated in the tour of the State Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) named after Pushkin organized by the State Protocol Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 25th of March 2019. It was a second of two such events arranged by the Ministry in honour of March 8, International Women's Day.

On March 25, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka attended the reception held on the occasion of the Pakistan Day.
The National Day reception was attended by representatives of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russian State Authority, Heads of Diplomatic Missions and Defence Attaches.

On March 21, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka had a discussion over coffee with Prof. Alexander Filippov, a renowned sociologist and a thinker, who holds a Doctoral Degree in Theory, History and Methods of Sociology, and PhD in History of Philosophy. The meeting was held at the Restaurant of the Russian Geographical Society, established in 1845.