On March 6, 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 paid a courtesy call on Vyacheslav Nikonov, Doctor in History and Chair of the Committee for Education & Science, who received the guests at his office at the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Dr. Nikonov is the grandson and the biographer of Vyacheslav Molotov, prominent "Old Bolshevik" and Soviet Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin from 1939—1949 and post-Stalin in 1953—1956.

On March 5, 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 Service at the Saint Louis Roman Catholic Church dedicated to the 6th death anniversary of el Comandante Hugo Chavez, the late President of Venezuela at the invitation of the Ambassador H.E. Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa.

The first week of spring yet snowy Moscow was coloured by the brightness of paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, symbols of the Latin American revolution in arts and 20th century pioneers of revolutionary movements. On March 04, 2019 Ambassador Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka admired the first large exhibition of this couple of world-famous artists, co-organized by the Fabergé Museum and the Continuity of Times Foundation in Moscow's Manège.