On March 1, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka received his Palestinian counterpart, H.E. Abdel Hafiz Nofal, previously Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Palestine to the Republic of South Africa, and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of National Economy.

On March 1, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka had a productive luncheon discussion with Senator Konstantin Kosachev, PhD in Law, Russian politician and diplomat, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Federation Council (Russian Parliament's uUpper House), who was the disciple and aide to the prominent Russian Foreign Minister, later Prime Minister and Academician Evgeny Primakov. Doctor Kosachev previously served as head of Rossotrudnichestvo (the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation).

On February 28, 2019, Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka paid a visit to his Serbian counterpart, Ambassador H. E. Slavenko Terzić.

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On February 26, 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 met with the Rector's staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy. Founded in 1934 by Stalin's Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, the Academy is the oldest diplomatic educational institution in the world.

On February 21, 2019 H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka paid a call on Senator Alexey Pushkov, a prominent Russian politician with PhD in History, Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the lead author of the information and analytical program Postscriptum, for which he received a Golden Feather pen Award from the Russian Union of journalists. Senator A. Pushkov was decorated with the Order of Honour for the major contribution to the development of the national television.