V1The staff of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow celebrated the Vesak festival on the eve of 23 May 2024 by offering buddha Pooja at the Buddha shrine at the Embassy. The Embassy premises was decorated with colourful display of Vesak lanterns, lights and Buddhist flags as part of the celebration of the birth, enlightenment and the parinirvana of Lord Gauthama Buddha.

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On 22 May 2024, Сhargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in the Russian Federation Ruvini Munidasa visited the Residence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Moscow to express the heartfelt condolences to the people of Iran and laid flowers to pay tribute to the late President of Iran Dr. Ebrahim Raisi, late Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Amir Abdollahian and other officials who died in the helicopter crash on 19 May 2024.

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At the invitation of the Russian Government Ms. Ruvini Munidasa, Chargé d'Affaires a. i., Counsellor, and Gp. Capt. Sanoj Jayaratne, Counsellor (Defence) observed the Victory Parade on the Red Square, Moscow, on 09 May 2024. The Parade is held annually to commemorate the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.